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Second (non-FW) charger dead… Am I causing this? (alien.top)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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So yesterday my Anker 100W charger died on the second use, so I bought another one, this time by Teknet (also 100W) which arrived today. Straight out of the box I plug it into my FW 13 and got nothing. Tried it on my phone, still nothing.

I made a post yesterday asking if I could use a 20W iPhone charger temporarily as long as I wasn’t using the laptop at the time. I’m doing that and it’s working, so I’m confident the laptop is ok.

Are chargers from Amazon just bad? Is this just a coincidence that I’ve had two broken ones so close together? Or is destiny trying to prevent me using my new laptop?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Probably bad luck. There are quite a few framework laptops out there and plenty of folks using other chargers, so far there doesn’t seem to be a general trend that they don’t work or cause issues.

But I’d stick to known brands, the mystery ones often don’t perform as claimed and are pretty shoddy on the safety features. Anker and UGreen seem to be popular and reliable based on forum posts. I see you had an Anker that died, but try another charger and hopefully your luck changes.