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It could cause potential harm to users or devices, as the cable may not have proper safeguards in place to prevent dangerous conditions like short circuits, overheating, or voltage spikes.

[–] 1friend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

He's really into it and although a bit on the slow side of presenting and interesting channel to watch

[–] 1friend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This makes me even more wary of my charging habits, maybe some of them only work due to me plugging them in correctly all the time. What if the connector is actually only making a really poor contact and getting hot?

 

A really interesting video about the possible culprits of out-of-spec cables.

[–] 1friend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

I'm really curious to see this!

[–] 1friend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's 89€ without tax, so maybe you are in a taxable country?

[–] 1friend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It's weird, it says 100W on the connector and 240W on the chip that is digitally read via the tester. Someone really cheaped out.

[–] 1friend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

It was surprising to see this happening so far into the video.

 

Let me know what you think, but this cable straight up melted and catched on fire after being put up to its nominal power.

[–] 1friend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

This should be a design requirement for every product anyways

 

Pretty much this:

I have an older USB C power bank from 2016 and it will only charge with a USB A to USB C cable. This is great information that needs to get to everyone, a lot of people don't know this.

[–] 1friend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Probably to be able to charge them simultaneously from one charger?

[–] 1friend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I have a couple of older gadgets that are still in regular use, but new ones are exclusively USBC nowadays

 

This is a USB-C to tripple (USB-C, micro USB and Lightning) cable which has the CC pins properly connected. This means that there are power delivery (PD) neg...

 

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I have one of those shown and never knew that they can make my devices go boom...

Any other things that may cause a surprise bonfire in my cable drawer?

 

I have one of those shown and never knew that they can make my devices go boom...

Any other things that may cause a surprise bonfire in my cable drawer?