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Charging 2021 Blade 15 Advanced with PSU and USB-C


Hi

During normal working hours I just use a Thunderbolt dock with 90w charging to run my Razer Raptor, Razer Noma Speaker, Chroma Dock, ethernet etc etc. This keeps the Blade 15 topped up. When I want to game, I plug in the Blade's PSU. Is this going to kill the battery? Does USB-C charging stop so it only takes one power source? With all the reports of battery swelling in these devices, I want to mitigate it as much as possible.

By Monday, the dock will be replace with a Chroma dock also, which I believe is still 90w.

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Sorry, to answer your original question more fully, no this will not harm your system. When the PSU is plugged in it disables power delivery over the USB-C automatically.
Razer? Anyone?
I actually use the Thunderbolt 4 Chroma dock here and just this morning they pushed out a firmware update and now I can just use the USB-C dock cable to run full performance mode. Prior to the update today it would give me a warning about power being underdelivered and would lock me into battery settings only. Now I am able to use full plugged in performance and even overclock using nothing but the USB-C cable. I am using the 11th gen version with Thunderbolt 4 and the Thunderbolt 4 dock, so your mileage may vary depending on your system. A very pleasant surprise though and now I don't need to spend an extra $130 on a PSU to keep at work.
Awesome. Really appreciate a response, thank you.

Running the 2021 10th gen version (annoyingly) so haven’t seen an update like that yet.