Recommended · for some experience
#177 Avoid Surprises: How good are USB cables and how can you test yours?
Why people recommend it
Pointed to for understanding why thin USB leads cause supply droop on boards like the Pi and ESP, and for how to measure a cable's quality.
Watch for: useful when a board browns out or reboots on USB power
In their words
Another root cause is the usage of inferior cables (USB) with very high AWG (very low area) on the copper in the cable, see
Mats Karlsson on electronics.stackexchange.com, Nov 2020. CC BY-SA.
Check this [video] for a more in-depth description.
MatsK on raspberrypi.stackexchange.com, Jan 2019. CC BY-SA.
