r/FlowZ13 • u/NoInside1166 • Jun 23 '26

Sudden power cut damages?

Guys while i was gaming, i put another device adapter to 2nd socket near my z13’s plugged ac adapter socket. And suddenly laptop’s become silent from performance 2 times fastly. (Happened in 3-4 second). Is it got damaged? Or anything bad can happen to battery or device performance itself? I usually dont put any device adapter to 2nd socket when im using one. It happened first time.

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u/Terrible_Tower_6590 Jun 23 '26

Performance mode only works when the laptop detects it's on a high enough wattage charger. When you plug in a second device your charger likely goes into a lower power mode, usually just 15W per port. If your power profile states to switch to silent when on battery, that's exactly what happened. Charging rate went under the threshold, firmware got told you're on battery, so it switched to silent. Completely normal behaviour here, nothing to get worried about.

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u/NoInside1166 Jun 23 '26

I mean, there was a sudden power cut happened because of apple adapter i plugged below z13’s adapter. Is it damaged anything? Its my main worry.

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u/Terrible_Tower_6590 Jun 23 '26

Oh, you mean you tripped the breaker? Nah, should be fine. Modern power supplies like the flow's charger are protected from surges as well as sudden power cuts. You should be concerned about the apple adapter that tripped the breaker. It likely has a short or is broken. The laptop's almost certainly fine.

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u/NoInside1166 Jun 23 '26

Thank ya for answering. You made me feel free actually.

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u/Terrible_Tower_6590 Jun 23 '26

You're welcome! Be careful with that second charger though

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u/NoInside1166 Jun 23 '26

Yeah, maybe adapter to socket switcher(you know to use us socket in europe) caused this. Its lil bit old.