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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Buy from reputable brands, make sure they supply the full wattage to a single USB-C port if it has multiple ports.
If they fail, it may just be a defective unit. Hopefully if you exchange it, the second will be good.
I like my ugreen 100w chargers. Use them on my fw and plenty of other devices, never have an issue for several months now
I can’t see how a charger can fail because of what it’s charging, especially if it has plenty of headroom (a Framework 13 is designed for a 65W charger). More likely to fail because it’s either a lemon or the electrical outlet is bad in some way, so I call bad luck on the Anker and perhaps predictable luck on the rando brand.
@PsychologicalDrone What cable are you using? If 1 cable links all these failures, try a good quality cable.
Also beware of fake goods on Amazon–I’ve had more success with small town independent sellers on Ebay.
I use this cable
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/165520260877
with this charger at work.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/285539262957At home I use official Framework charger, which came with EU mains plug, with a standard C5 (also known as ‘cloverleaf’) cable that has a UK plug.
@PsychologicalDrone n.b. For those who like to use official Framework kit, they’ve announced a charger with the UK cable “coming soon”.
I am using a 65W and a 100W chargers and I’ve got no problem with either.
