Phone charging cables keep failing

[Pittsdriverwes]

I've had my iPhone mounted on the bars of my GS for many thousands of miles over many trips and it seems several days in to just about every multi-day trip the USB charging cord fails. Every single time I've isolated the problem to a cord that no longer works. It used to be Apple iPhone charging cords that were failing so I tried my own home made strain relief and none of that worked. On the next long ride, a cord would fail and I'd replace it and ride on. Then I went to the quad lock vibration isolating inductive charging mount thinking maybe it was the sharp bend in the cable to plug directly in to the phone. The quad lock mount has a USB-USB-C cable that I plug in to an adapter on the dash of the bike. On a week long trip in May, my phone stopped charging - replaced the cable and rode on. Now on my last week long ride from Annapolis to Calgary, same thing happened again.

Is this happening to anyone else?

When I go back to Calgary to begin the next phase of my ride to Tuk, I'm going to be using these cables on the quad lock mount:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BXX6LN8X...roduct_details

I'm hoping that the braided cable, built-in strain relief, and maybe the 90 degree USBC connector will be more robust.

[aviator]

Wes, I have such a cable for many seasons and yet to fail. The right angle snap in connector works.

[Pittsdriverwes]

Thanks Mani, that's my plan for the rest of the trip but taking a couple of spares just in case.

[Pittsdriverwes]

I just noticed that I never followed up here. I can report that these more robust braided cables with the strain relief ends worked like a charm for the 10,000+ miles I've put on the bike since I switched to them.

[802Mike]

I have the Quad Lock with shock mount and charging. Haven't test it yet.

[Pittsdriverwes]

I have the same mount and it was the cable between the quad lock and the power port on the dash that kept failing. Not sure why as there was no tension on it but there was also no support so it would flop around a bit on the ride.

[802Mike]

I'd heard that the vibretion was killing the phone's cameras, so I got the anti vibration mount.