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I had a number of them from two or three different brands. They had tendency to cause sparking and I lost at least one phone due to it. The phone was fine but
by onetimeuse92304 3y ago
I had a number of them from two or three different brands.
They had tendency to cause sparking and I lost at least one phone due to it. The phone was fine but it lost ability to be charged through the USB port. And because it did not have wireless charging, when the battery ran out it became an expensive brick.
- Psychoshy_bc1q 3y agocan't it be repaired?
- diffeomorphism 3y agoYikes. Haven't had an issue yet with the ones I use. Good to know.
- briansm 3y agoYup, I lost a chromebook that way. I think magnetic connections are fine for 5V power with no data line, but as soon as you add more connections and try increasing voltage/power you are asking for trouble.
- JohnFen 3y agoMy deep fryer has a magnetic connection for the power cord. That's high voltage and wattage, and works just fine.
- ThePowerOfFuet 3y agoBecause the only two pins are hot and neutral, which are designed to have high voltage across them. Put 20 V Vbus on a CC line and see what happens.
- JohnFen 3y agoThat seems more likely to be because that design was bad rather than that the concept is bad.