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[–] 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

may not be able to charge

Or simply smoke with a wrong one

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Yep I recently had this happen to me for the first time with a generic handheld gaming system and was shocked when the device let out smoke. I opened it up and sure enough the buck converter for the battery charging circuit was burnt, likely because the non-compliant device had somehow requested more than 5V from the charger... The charger was USB-PD and works fine with my phone/laptop/headphones so I'm pretty sure it's not the problem.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Is it a SteamDeck? It happened to me once and Steam replaced it even after warranty was expired

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Nah a generic "K36" game system I bought for just under $20 in China. It played everything up to PS1 games flawlessly with a beautiful IPS LCD which was extremely impressive for the price. It even did one full recharge from a dumb charger without issue before I tried using my normal USB-PD capable charger on it, releasing the magic smoke.

    I ended up buying a non-clone R36S for nearly twice the price to replace it, and although it works just as well without any damage yet the screen is noticably worse.

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