Electric damage to my other parts

Alexis22334

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Before I sold my macbook pro 2010, when charging with a UK power block it gave me a a tingle sort of buzzing feeling when running my fingers across the aluminium chassis. This did not happen whilst running off the battery alone. My partner could feel it if he ran his arm across my skin. Despite the power being earthed in plug it still done so.


I used several USB and my graphics tablet plugged into it. I would like to know if that sort of electrocution feeling could damage my peripherals, and when I had not used them for 2 weeks as I waited for my new tower-could plugging the things I had used in the macbook damage my new Pc. They work fine in spare laptop, just worried about our new high end one. Also say once I plugged peripherals from macbook into new Pc, then brought a new USB or plugged partners capture card in. Would that get damaged. Or say the ps4 that it could cause it to fault some how.

Regards
Alexis
 
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Generally, the USB controller would simply fail first if the voltage or amperage is too high for it too handle. At that point you should get worried. If the device is damaged plugging it into the new tower is not likely to damage anything unless you opened them up and modified something.

Long story short, you should be fine.

Xibyth

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Generally, the USB controller would simply fail first if the voltage or amperage is too high for it too handle. At that point you should get worried. If the device is damaged plugging it into the new tower is not likely to damage anything unless you opened them up and modified something.

Long story short, you should be fine.
 
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Alexis22334

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Okay. Every thing is plugged in and working, was just worried if we had plugged our Nintendo or ps4 capture in that it would be damaged. Thank you for your help
Nice to know it won't cause harm on our new devices.