{"id":16594,"date":"2018-04-04T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/nintendo_has_detailed_the_usb_cables_you_can_use_to_safely_charge_your_switch"},"modified":"2018-04-04T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T12:15:00","slug":"nintendo-has-detailed-the-usb-cables-you-can-use-to-safely-charge-your-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/04\/04\/nintendo-has-detailed-the-usb-cables-you-can-use-to-safely-charge-your-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Has Detailed The USB Cables You Can Use To Safely Charge Your Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"news2.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/nintendo_has_detailed_the_usb_cables_you_can_use_to_safely_charge_your_switch\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/nintendo_has_detailed_the_usb_cables_you_can_use_to_safely_charge_your_switch\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"news2.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Last month, the combination of a new firmware update and a raft of third-party docks\/USB chargers led to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/third-party_nintendo_switch_docks_could_be_bricking_consoles\">multiple reports of Switch units being bricked<\/a> as a result. Nintendo itself <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/nintendo_comments_on_third-party_docks_bricking_switch_systems\">was quick to comment back in March<\/a>, and now the Big N has released an official list of USB chargers that can safely charge your console without causing it to turn into an expensive paperweight.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/support.nintendo.co.jp\/app\/answers\/detail\/a_id\/34073\/p\/8664\">According to the official FAQ from Nintendo of Japan<\/a>,\u00a0using a USB-A to USB-C charging cable is perfectly fine as long as it has a 56K OHM resistor &#8211; the official Switch charging cable meets these requirements to a tee, so make sure any dock you might be purchasing ticks these boxes or you&#8217;re going to run the risk of putting your handheld wonder six feet under.<\/p>\n<p><em>Have you had your Switch brick from using a third-party charger? Has your Switch been perfectly fine with a non-first-party dock? Let us know in the comments below&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, the combination of a new firmware update and a raft of third-party docks\/USB chargers led to multiple reports of Switch units being bricked as a result. Nintendo itself was quick to comment back in March, and now the Big N has released an official list of USB chargers that can safely charge your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}