What’s the risk of frying the LF side of an xMagic or NExT implant with a Qi charger?
I did some digging and found a lot of information regarding the xLED, but didn’t find a clear answer on frying a T5577.
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
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@Satur9 meantions that the t5577 (which is the LF side of both) is resistant to such things but hasn’t been thoroughly tested in this thread.
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While not the most scientific reply, I’ve been unable to kill any of my T5577 chips with my collection of Qi chargers.
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You could do it if you placed the T5577 in between the Qi transmitter and receiver after they’ve negotiated a power contract. That would be exceeding difficult to accomplish even outside the body though because the long axis of the implant would have to be perpendicular to the transmitter coil, and Qi coupling only works from a couple centimeters distance. If you’re talking about inside your hand? Forget about it.
Induction cooktops work from a greater distance, but you’d burn yourself long before you got the finicky positioning necessary
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Yeah I can’t imagine you could no matter what. The chip just won’t take more than it wants through the analog frontend, and the ESD protection is in the kV range
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The Qi chargers that I have complained when I tried this with a T5577 card but some chargers might still be able to cause damage.
I’m personally not worried about my xEM and I love Qi chargers.
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Sounds like I don’t have much to worry about then.
I appreciate the replies!
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In other news, another of my Qi chargers died today. The T5577 chips that I have turned out to be more durable than the average Qi charger…
The weather has been dry and I’m getting occasional zaps of static electricity because of it. But I doubt that this could’ve killed a fully assembled Qi charging pad while it’s plugged in.
I had 2 Anker ones fail way before I knew about implants, another Anker fell apart on me as the rubber started to degrade, a portable no name one broke because the plastic was too thin, and now a Momax lamp/Qi charger died on me… Yet the slow Samsung charger that I bought back in 2016 is still going strong… I wasn’t expecting the brand of these things to matter that much.
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“Brands” in China don’t really exist for the most part… It’s normal for vendor contacts to change company names 20+ times over just a few years because brand is meaningless in a market that only cares about price. Samsung is a brand that cares about their image for longer than 15 minutes after you click the buy button 
Anker launched several subcompany names over the years to sell their barely functional products … I bought some eufy products before realizing it was just Anker by another name… and almost all of them are on their last leg after just a few years.
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