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Magnetic cable just catched on fire while being tester under nominal load (www.youtube.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by 1friend@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/usbchardware@sh.itjust.works

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

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[–] firstHexodrome@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I knew that those cables were shady, but this result was actually surprising. It really went out with full fireworks.

[–] 1friend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

I thought he said this cable was rated at 100w, not 250w.

Nope I was wrong he did say 240w

[–] 1friend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 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.

[–] aramova 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Possibly a case of faulty chips that were supposed to be able to handle 240w, failed QA and got binned and slapped in a 100w cable thinking it's fine and users would just know.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah that would be my guess as well.

But honestly who is pumping 240w through a magnetic connector in the first place?!? My MacBook Pro only has a 96w power supply. I mean are you charging a bike with that thing?

[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

usb-c epr supports up to 240w. its still fairly limited on what devices will use that value, but for example, a framework 16 laptop with the 7700s dgpu option can easily pull 180w over usb-c.

no one has practically implemented magnetic cables with the new EPR standard yet though.

[–] 1friend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 weeks ago

I'm really curious to see this!

[–] Quexotic@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I thought the tester was really neat except it went from 89 euros to 105 euros while I was looking at the page. That's very disappointing.

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

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

[–] Quexotic@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

Aah. It must've taken it a while to figure out tariffs for the US. Interesting

[–] Warehouse@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 weeks ago

Did he ever specify the manufacturer of this cable or is he suggesting that this is a problem with every cable?