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[neo raider]

No handshake to deliver power is stupidly dangerous

 

[Tobimacoss]

Wtf, valve needs to stop delivery and redesign it.

 

[Warnen]

Puck gate?

 

[TintoConCasera]

Damn that's some shit design. Here's hoping the Frame doesn't come with this kind of faults.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Magsafe on all controllers, please. wireless charging, no contacts.

 

[FoxMcChief]

Yikes. That's some Temu level of QA work.

 

[Pagusas]

Oh wow. I wonder if the Xbox Elite 2's magnetic charging dock does a hang shake or just constantly feeds power to the pins like the puck? I have mine tucket in my couches center console, I should test that :-/

 

[neo raider]

Oh wow. I wonder if the Xbox Elite 2's magnetic charging dock does a hang shake or just constantly feeds power to the pins like the puck? I have mine tucket in my couches center console, I should test that :-/

It has some safety mechanism according to google

 

[Topher]

Dang Valve......gotta do better than this

 

[bender]

 

[RoboFu]

lol you forgot to finish the title " catch fire .... if you are completely stupid and lay a metal watch band across the contacts. ".

 

[Grenseal]

lol wtf?

Let's play some half life 2

 

[bender]

lol you forgot to finish the title " catch fire .... if you are completely stupid and lay a metal watch band across the contacts. ".

Let me introduce you to "humans".

 

[Magic Carpet]

Steam Machine going to be fire.
Steam Frame going to be fire on your face.

 

[adamsapple]

 

[DarkShadowXI]

Perfect timing. Mine just shipped

 

[Three]

You can see the imprint of the strap in the plastic as it melted.

 

[Tobimacoss]

Yikes. That's some Temu level of QA work.

Very amateur hour, seems they never got the proper UL certifications either. Their hardware teams are only like 30-40 people out of the 400 Valve employees.

Oh wow. I wonder if the Xbox Elite 2's magnetic charging dock does a hang shake or just constantly feeds power to the pins like the puck? I have mine tucket in my couches center console, I should test that :-/

It has some safety mechanism according to google

That's the difference between console makers or OEMs vs someone trying to do hardware on the side.

 

[rm082e]

I'm not using mine. Since I'm at a desk, I just use a cable for all my controllers. I'll use the USB cable somewhere else, but maybe I should just toss the puck out to be safe?

 

[jshackles]

What the puck?

 

[Ceallach]

This is shockingly bad engineering for valve

 

[Magic Carpet]

Wonder if my 8bitdo ultimate 2 dock will do that. It's pins are at the bottom of a saddle shapped dock, a bit more protected.

 

[Three]

lol you forgot to finish the title " catch fire .... if you are completely stupid and lay a metal watch band across the contacts. ".

Normally exposed pins have circuitry to cut of high current in case of a short circuit. This doesn't appear to have that.

 

[MayauMiao]

What The Puck??

 

[RoboFu]

Normally exposed pins have circuitry to cut of high current in case of a short circuit. This doesn't appear to have that.

hmm im trying to do it with mine and a fork. and its not sparking or anything. start a fire damn it!

 

[R3TRO]

Oh no...Whoever has one should give it to me so their house won't burn down.

 

[Three]

hmm im trying to do it with mine and a fork. and its not sparking or anything. start a fire damn it!

Not sure if you're being serious.
Stainless steel is a poor conductor but it should still heat up if you leave it there. It doesn't burst into flames or cause sparks. It's only 5V. It's a slow heat up over time. I still wouldn't recommend doing it though.

 

[Magic-DEI-Hire]

Yikes. This is a pretty bad QA oversight.

 

[CLW]

 

[Jinzo Prime]

Time for a recall.

 

[Mownoc]

So it just delivers electricity if it's connected to anything metal, and it's magnetic. Great design lol.

 

[Jinzo Prime]

Oh God, Valve just gave that Steve dude content for the next 2 weeks

 

[Zamana]

I always say stick to either the Dualsense or Xbox Wireless.

Those are mass produced, cheap to repair or even replace and work fine. They have gone through many iterations and now are great products.

It's like a Toyota. Simple, reliable and works well for most of the tasks.

 

[HoodWinked]

its always funny how stuff like this isn't caught during testing but discovered 5 seconds after consumers get their hands on it.

 

[Soodanim]

Both sides are at fault here.

Valve putting out a product that does this in the first place in indefensible, and needs to be addressed (as I'm sure they will do).

But regardless of whatever safety features you think might be in there, why would you risk it by putting anything on top of it?

I guess the reason safety features need to exist is to stop idiots from hurting themselves, so this is a prime example.

 

[Aressa]

lol you forgot to finish the title " catch fire .... if you are completely stupid and lay a metal watch band across the contacts. ".

C'mon now no one is going to do that deliberately. That's the whole point of an accident. It's fine we can like Valve and still criticize them.

 

[kiphalfton]

Wonder if my 8bitdo ultimate 2 dock will do that. It's pins are at the bottom of a saddle shapped dock, a bit more protected.

Try it out and report back.

 

[Davevil]

 

[crackajack]

Magsafe on all controllers, please. wireless charging, no contacts.

wireless is kinda stupid for anything that doesn't actually need it. Waste of energy and money. Certainly small for individuals but huge if wireless would be used on everything globally, just for some comfort browny points.
I even rather have fixed cables on as much as possible. Since charging in itself is bleeding energy.

 

[SJRB]

Stupid idiots at Valve didn't take into account the possibility that someone might put a metal wristwatch strap across all three nodes, absolute amateur hour.

 

[timothet]

It's a really weird oversight. We know there is some sort of handshake between the puck and the controller because the controller has to recalibrate the TMR joysticks due to interference from the puck's magnets. Hopefully, Valve can fix this with just a software update.

 

[Rivdoric]

Put a 12vhpwr on top of it and tell me what happens.

 

[TrebleShot]

I mean it's a pretty severe edge case but they should address it.

 

[Mownoc]

Stupid idiots at Valve didn't take into account the possibility that someone might put a metal wristwatch strap across all three nodes, absolute amateur hour.

A lot of gamers out there with cluttered desks. The issue is probably less someone putting something on top of the puck, and more them taking the puck off the controller dropping it on their desk and it landing on something conductive. Which with it being magnetic doesn't seem that hard.

 

[willothedog]

Don't electrical devices have to be sent to a third-party to be tested so they can be certified or are low-power products exempt?

 

[damidu]

lol you forgot to finish the title " catch fire .... if you are completely stupid and lay a metal watch band across the contacts. ".

its basically a magnet snapping to stuff, idiot.
but go on with your yacht defense duties

 

[Topher]

Wonder if this could be fixed with a firmware update

 

[Kupfer]

That post that blew up is extremely sus. What seems to have happened there is that the OP had the puck connected to a charger (why? ), had the watch charging via induction, connected the watch strap to the puck, inducing a charge and burning out the puck, not the other way around.

 

[Sorcerer]

lol you forgot to finish the title " catch fire .... if you are completely stupid and lay a metal watch band across the contacts. ".

I mean that's something you probably don't think about and probably carelessly happens all the time, especially if you keep an untidy desk, never mind just having kids just leaving things around.
Simple human carelessness does not excuse an item that could burn your house down.

 

[Topher]

So the watch was charging at the time. I guess the guy charges his stuff in one area. The metal watch band on the charger fell on to the puck and caused it to burn up.

I don't know why he is asking "why?" about the puck being connected to the charger. Why wouldn't it be?