Powering the Framework 13 Mainboard through the battery port

Hello, I have an interesting problem with my Framework 13 AMD 7840. It was connected to a dock, running two displays and peripheries when I noticed that the battery was getting lower. I checked with two other chargers but the laptop wont charge(or run on just USB power with battery disconnected), despite the ports working fully otherwise.

I contacted support and they suggested trying a mainboard reset which didn’t work as the mainboard had no power, after which they said I would need a new mainboard.

As the current mainboard still works perfectly fine except the USB power delivery I was wondering if anyone has experience with powering the mainboard through the battery port so I can use it for a server or something similar. On a related note, does anyone have an idea on how I could recharge the battery manually so it doesn’t sit at 0% for a while.

This is a great idea. Framework could probably even sell some type of cheap premade adapter that you could power through usbc, which would free up all of the main USB ports for expansion cards and accessories.