When my wife wanted to transfer my son's unused Kinect to my old Xbox 360 (without Kinect), I needed this adapter. The day it arrived it took me every 5 minutes to connect it to the 360 and Kinect. Since then it's been working great. The orange Kinect cable connects to one cable and the USB connector of the other cable to a 360 USB port. The other end plugs into a standard outlet, of course.