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Lots of Nintendo Switch charger/dock anecdotes revealing issues here.
by atatatat 5y ago
Lots of Nintendo Switch charger/dock anecdotes revealing issues here.
- mschuster91 5y agoMost of the anecdotes revolve around a specific faulty dock whose manufacturer thought it were a brilliant idea to implement PD with a microcontroller that used 9V signalling level, whereas the (standard compliant!) Switch PD chip expected 5V (with 6V max) and as a result, the dock fried the Switch's PD chip. Also, the Nintendo Switch Dock's male USB-C plug is a tiny bit more narrow to provide a smooth slide in/out (and the Switch-side female receptacle is standard-conforming)... un-licensed and thus unaware dock vendors cluelessly tried to emulate that and botched the tolerances, exposing the CC pins to 15V. See https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/08/heres-why-nintendo-switch-consoles-keep-frying/ https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/08/heres-why-nintendo-sw... for more. tl;dr: the Switch is standards-compliant, the problem are third party accessories.