That’s it re-stoking the internal combustion engine. It’s perfectly fine
Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop!
vivalapivo@lemmy.today 3 days agomay not be able to charge
Or simply smoke with a wrong one
towerful@programming.dev 2 days ago
COASTER1921@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
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.
CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Is it a SteamDeck? It happened to me once and Steam replaced it even after warranty was expired
COASTER1921@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
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 and releasing the magic smoke.
CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Lol, I never bought it. Just use PC emulators