Jokes aside, this is something an astonishing number of folks know less than nothing about.
He’s saying if you plug the charger in it can transmute the energy into work, meaning when you exit the room you may come back to finding it sitting on the counter unplugged. As your partner wouldnt have wanted it to put a hole in the roof so they unplugged it and put it on the counter.
I’ve heard the cheap ones don’t like doing this too much.
DON’T DO THIS. i did that by mistake once and it grilled my powerbank. was completely broken after. this is beyond stupid.
What’s stupid is buying cheap AliExpress power banks that don’t mitigate this situation safely, and instead simply explode, burning your house down…
They are cheap and if you don’t need an expensive product, they are mostly fine, but I got a free powerbank with some crappy teen magazine (when I still ocasionaly read those ad filled pieces of shit) and it died on the second charge.
mostly fine
That’s not what I want to hear about a high density energy storage solution.
Assuming it was either 15 years ago or your powerbank is a budget one.
My powerbank would just flip me off and tell me to go fuck myself if I did plug it into itself.
(seriously tho, it would just cut power and turn off immediately. If your powerbank doesn’t do at least that, then discard it and get another one with more advanced protection features)
Nail it to the side of your house, in the sunlight, for a totally free charge from the sun
Fire hazard speed run
I don’t think it would it be too bad since it’d have a current limiter would it?
Yeah, so I think it’d be fine, since I’d think the charge limit would be about the same as the discharge limit of the power bank. It would heat up a normal amount for charging and being charged at the same time, but I don’t think it would melt down or anything. It’d just drain slowly over time.
You shouldn’t charge a battery pack at the same time you’re discharging it unless it’s specifically designed to allow that. Most consumer power banks are not designed to do that.
It’s doubly stupid to charge it from itself.
