Can picking the wrong charger damage your expensive new smartphone purchase? Here's the facts you need to know.

Can picking the wrong charger damage your expensive new smartphone purchase? Here’s the facts you need to know.

  • fl42v@lemmy.mlEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    Well, I’ve heard of at least one case where a PD charder likely died in a way that the output voltage was consistently above 5. Not sure what exactly, but it managed to fry a laptop via type-c that didn’t support charging, and 5v won’t do that.

    • Uranium 🟩@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      171·
      2 months ago

      My friend has so far fried 4 or 5 steamdecks, ROG Ally and two power banks before he took my advice to buy a type c cable tester and to stop using any charger that didn’t come with the device until he could test them.

      Turned out it was a damaged cable, I think it was a CC line was no longer working.

      I’ve had a couple of cheaper Chinese type c and usb A multi port chargers fail; I manage to fry like 3 sex toys before I realised the type A ports were outputting 12v, and at some point something went wrong and the type c fried my phone (which I guess is on me for continuing to use the charger after the issue with the type A ports)

      • solrize@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        2 months ago

        There was a famous incident of a badly designed PD cable frying Benson Leung’s fancy ($2000) Pixel Chromebook or something like that.

    • db2@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I wonder if there’s any market for an inline breaker to add protection to badly designed computers.