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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      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.

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        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.

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          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?

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            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.