HORI Nintendo Switch Joy-Con Charge Stand by HORI Officially Licensed by Nintendo
0HORI Nintendo Switch Joy-Con Charge Stand by HORI Officially Licensed by Nintendo
Amazon Produc Link: http://amazon.com/dp/B01MZAUN5E/?tag=hanh68-20
Charge up to 4 Joy-Con at once
LEDs indicate charge status
Plugs into Nintendo Switch Dock
From the United States
Get an adapter, plug into the wall - NOT the dock
I've had this for a few weeks now, and I like it a lot. I have 3-4 pairs of Joy-Cons, so it's nice to be able to keep them all charged together.
The build quality is really nice and there's no locking mechanism involved. Joy-Cons slide in and slide off. The red light comes on if they're charging and stays off if they aren't. There is not a wall plug included, but they charge by a non-detatchable USB cord. The cord is short, so it's obviously intended on being plugged into the Switch dock.
Here's the kicker: So I've had mine plugged into my Switch's dock until recently. And for awhile, I thought maybe something was wrong with my charger (or at least the charge-indicator lights.) The red lights for each Joy-Con rail would light up, then off, then on, then off - all very intermittently and seemingly arbitrarily. I thought that was weird and shrugged it off, because as far as I could tell, my Joy-Cons have always had ample charge. HOWEVER - on a hunch, I recently bought a USB extension cable and a generic (Amazon branded) charging brick and tried plugging it into the wall instead.
And boom, just like that, all Joy-Con charging lights lit up solid red and they stayed red until each individual Joy-Con was fully charged.
After a little more testing, I learned that the Switch's dock doesn't seem to deliver reliable power via the front USB ports unless the Switch is inside the dock, AND ON in TV mode. If the Switch is asleep, the Hori charger didn't work properly through the front USB ports.
I didn't try testing it with the dock's rear USB port, because that is where my Ethernet adapter is plugged in. Maybe (MAYBE) the rear USB port does deliver reliable power during sleep mode? I don't know; I didn't test it, because my rear port is never free.
Anyway, consider grabbing a wall outlet brick (the Amazon branded one works fine) and plugging it in that way. All my other controller chargers (Wiimote chargers, Dualshock 4 charger, etc.) get their juice from the wall, so no reason to keep it tethered to the dock just because Hori didn't include a wall adapter.