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

  • Uranium 🟩@sh.itjust.works
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    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.world
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      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.