Can I use both the 240w and the 60w charger at the same time?

Framework Laptop 16
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I’ve recently started playing Farming Sim 25 and I have noticed that after a few hours my battery charge level will drop to under 5% and I’m forced to stop playing and charge the battery. This is happening while the 16 is plugged in and charging using the 240w charger. It’s gotten to the point that I have decided to finally return to a desktop Gaming PC setup.

Now my question is, Besides the 240w charger i also have the 60w charger from the 13. Can I use both chargers when I’m gaming or would that damage the motherboard from dual use? Would that even help keep the 16 fully charged so I can game uninterrupted? Would there be any unanticipated issues that would be caused from doing this?

System -

Framework 16 (AMD Ryzen 7040 Series)

GPU (AMD Radeon™ RX 7700S)

64gb

Windows 11 (25h2)

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Only 1 charger can be used at a time, if you plug another in it just won’t work.

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That’s disappointing. I was hoping my idea would work. Have a charger on either side of the laptop. Oh well. I really like the framework 16. As an over the road truck driver it was a great mobile solution for gaming but now that I’ve gone local and I’m living in an apartment rather than a sleeper cab, it’s just not viable. I’ve got a tax refund coming so I’ll just have to bit the bullet in this ram crisis and buy DDR 5 Desktop and hope the prices come back down so I can buy more than just 1 stick of ram.

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There is a long thread that discusses this.

There are ways round the problem.

  1. One of those is by changing the bios charge limits. By default the limits are 5% appart. You can widen that with the “ectool chargecontrol …” command, thus more game time before charging.
  2. allow more current from the psu by adjusting the chargelimit.
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Well no, it isn’t just bios controlling power. Mostlikely a chip on mainboard does it too that prevent’s more than allowed watt/volts from charging the laptop. So changing in bios won’t mostlikely bypass the method since chip on mainboard will still block the amount of watt/volt.

Most laptops out there has something called overcharge protection chip that is programed to only allow the within range Watt/Volt etc. So any amount striking above the allowed limit would either do following:

1.Shut down laptop to prevent damage

2.Port breaks to prevent overcharge

It is thanks to this USB killer tool that sends out high volts or something that can kill devices without protection, while devices with protection will just shutdown but still boot up afterwards with no damage or atleast a broken USB C/USB A port.