Title says all, I just wanna know so I don’t blow up my new laptop. (I’m a uhhhhh Gamer so the 60w is…I mean it works p well it’s just that I fear it might not cut it for some higher intensity stuff)
(also the 240 is from an old laptop)
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The chargers for all the laptops are USB-C, so I don’t know if anything not USB-C or USB PD 3.0 or better. I’ve been using the FW16 with the 180w power brick, and it’s been more than good enough for me. Since the 240w power brick is from an older laptop, I don’t think it’s going to work.
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Hi,
If it is a DC barrel power adapter, it will not work. The FW13 needs a USB-C Power adapter.
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If that power brick is USB-C, it will work, but since it’s from an old laptop I don’t think it is USB-C or USB PD so it couldn’t do power negotiation like USB PD does it. Which I think will cause it to just not work
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good to know! but also i briefly forgot how power adapters work oops. I’ll probably just keep my eye on a 180 or something cause it…seems to still be doing fine tbh. thanks for the advice!
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What’s the voltage and amp rating of the 240W adapter?
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uhhhhhh how do i check idk how
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It should be written on the power adapter and can be read
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ah gotcha
i will say tho despite what the laptop tells me it…seems to be charging fine w a 60w charger so like. idk.
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The Laptop 13 comes with a 65W charger by default, so that’s not a huge surprise. 
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65w a
i do not rember very well lmao
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You can. It will not make anything explode.
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That largely does not matter for the vast majority of consumer USB-C hardware. Whatever the laptop is able to take, the adapter will provide–NOTHING should ever get fried.
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Right, good to know. Seems to be the general consensus I found.
…which uh. Plot twist, turns out the 65w is charging it just fine, idk why Fedora says it can’t stay at full charge.
I’ve dealt w computers enough to not question it further and just roll w it.
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The only issue is that USB PD requires Power Negotiation, so without a special adapter that at least emulates the negotiation, there’s no way it’s going to try to pull anywhere near the 60W that the FW13 needs let alone 240W. So, we just need to figure out the plug the old 240W adapter uses, how FW does the PD and power negotiation for their USB ports, and then how to translate whatever the old charger uses to that. A great spot to start is with BreakerSpace’s YT vid about turning old chargers into USB C, maybe that’s all that we need anyhow, not sure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0QI_4TQ7XI (for 65W)
OP could be using a charger with barrel jack DC output. They said the 240W is from an old laptop and it’s very unlikely for an old laptop to have 240W USBC PD charging. Without looking into PD negotiation or DC-DC converter, simply using a cheap barrel to USB-C converter might cause malfunction
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i should really change the thread title huh.
anyways uh. dw turns out fedora just bein a bit silly and my 65w is charging just fine.
and also that i am a bit silly.
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You could add a [solved] to the thread title.
I edited your post title.