How to charge your PS4 Controller WITHOUT Burning it out.

hi there my name's Vince from my mate Vince comm and in this video today I'm going to show you the different ways you can charge your DualShock 4 controller and that's the controller you use with the ps4 now this here is a ps4 slim and as part of the package you do get this charging cable which is basically just a USB cable to a micro USB cable but there is other ways you can charge your controller and a lot of people do like to charge it via a wall socket so an electricity outlet and what they do is they use their Android mobile phone chargers or basically any USB charger so this is an old Apple charger now the problem with this is some of the charges work fine but some chargers are underpowered but more importantly some chargers are overpowered so I'm going to show you if you watch the whole video I'm going to show you some of the charge that you shouldn't use now just to show you what's what the ps4 has USB ports at the front here and these are USB 3 ports so they're going to output 5 volts and the milliamp so that's the current that they're pushing out is up to 900 milliamps because 1 amp is the same as a thousand milliamp so when you're looking at your charger is because you will need to double check this it might be written as for example more point 8 amps which would be 800 milliamps or it might be written as 800 milliamps so just remember that there's a thousand milliamps in one amp so one amp means the same as a thousand milliamps now most people will just be charging their controllers via the ps4 viola ports at the front with the supplied lead the problem with this is the lead is relatively short now you can buy a longer lead but remember the longer the lead is the longer it's going to take to charge your controller because there will be a slight bit of loss in the cable so the longer the distance the more loss there is so what a lot of people like to do is they like to charge up their controller via a normal electricity power point and if I just show you that working now so if I was just to plug in this one here and this electricity supply over here and then if I plug that into the top here now remember you don't have to use a special Sony charging cable any USB to micro-usb cable will work and then when it's plugged in there hopefully you will then now see that it will go from like an amber color to then off and then it will go back to amber again and it will keep doing this while it's charging and then when it's charged this light will just go completely out the same as if it was a dead controller so you can just leave that plugged in into this charge and what you might find is that it may charge quicker when you're actually using your phone charger rather than plugging it into the ps4 now I'm just going to show you the what the controller the power it needs and also how to check what your charger actually does so if we have a look at the back here if you have a look closely you will see it says wireless controller DC 5 volts so that's what the controller needs and it needs 800 milliamps to work ok so it needs DC 5 volts 800 milliamps er what you need is your charger needs to output well it will be 5 volts if it's USB but please watch the full video because some of these quick chargers can output more and they are causing problems and you need it to be at least 800 milliamps set if for example this is a very old charger here if you were to use this one here you need to look closely but on all charges it will be written what they output so if you look right if you have a look at don't look at the primary or the input because that's what that's what goes into it you need to look at the output and if you look here where it's a secondary so that means SCC means secondary this is output so that's the same as output it's outputting 5 volts which is fine but this is only outputs in 550 milliamps and we know that our controller here in these 800 the answer what will happen is if if we were to use this charger here it would charge up the controller but it will take longer to do so and what you'll probably find is if you were to use this while actually playing it on here because what a lot of people do is they might have a power supply right by their couch and they might be they might only have a one or two meter charging lead so they might be sat four or five meters away from the TV so rather than being sat on the floor right in front of the ps4 they like to kick back sit on their couch and plug it into a power outlet near them and that's why they use these charging cables if you were to use a charger that wasn't up to spec what you probably find is it's plugged in so you think it's charging but because it needs eight hundred milliamps and this is only outputting 550 milliamps you'll be able to play the game but it's gonna be taking power out of the battery so if your battery is already flat then you're not going to have enough power to charge it and play at the same time so it would be fine if you just left that overnight with one of these it probably would charge up okay overnight even though it's going to take longer but if you're actually using it to play a game while charging it's not going to have enough output to charge and play at the same time so what you need to do is you need to get a charger which is more than 800 milliamps have a look at this one here this is a charger for a tablet you can see here it says output 5 volts 2 amps 2.0 amps so that's the same as 2,000 milliamps which is way more than the controller needs but that's absolutely fine you don't have to worry about using something with a higher output as long as the voltage is the same because all that will happen is this controller will only ever ask for 800 milliamps so although this charger here can supply up to 2,000 milliamps which is 2 amps this will only ever draw 800 milliamps from it you're absolutely fine to use this charter here let's just look at a couple of other charges that I've got lying around and you'll probably find you've got charges lying all around your house this charger here although this charger is probably up on I would say maybe 10 years old now if you have a look it still outputs 5 volts at 1 amp so a thousand milliamps so again this one here would be absolutely fine to use just a couple more again this is a new charger for a mobile phone that was bought recently and if you have a look here it says primary right secondary their secondary 5 volts 2 amps so that's 2,000 milliamps so again you can use this charger because it's only going to draw 800 milliamps now this is the charger that's going to cause the problems right this charger here was for a slightly more expensive phone and going forward more and more phones are going to have this this phone here allows quick charging so it will charge up much quicker than the older generations of phones but loads of phones out there now have this quick charge facility built into them and if you google it loads of people are having problems with burning out frying out their controllers it gets really really hot and then they stop working by using newer charges that has the quick charge on it so if you have a look at this charger here there we go now this is important you see here it said secondary 5 volts at 2 amps which you think is fine but then it says 9 volts at 1.67 amps this is the problem this charger here allows the quick charge of a phone so normally the phone will just charge the older phones will just charge on 5 volts which is a USB standard at whatever amps that the phone needs to draw but on this quick charger ones it boosts up to 9 volts when the phone asks for it so by rights everything should be fine because this controller shouldn't ask for 9 volts and it would just charge at the 5 volts and loads of people do use these quick charge charges on these and it unloaded and they worked fine but all you've got to do is google it and you will see there's so many posts where people are complaining about their charger burning out their controllers and some people have done tests whether it reverse burns out four controllers so I would say because you've probably already have loads of charges in the house I would say stay away from anything that has the dual outputs so here you see nine volts so I think what's happening is although this controller here should never ask for nine volts obviously there's something built in between here and the phone that there's like some something happens where the phone's asking for more volts and then this supplies it but maybe there's some glitch or something in the controllers where occasionally they ask for a higher voltage and obviously if you're then going to push nine volts through to this when it's only expecting five volts you are going to ruin your battery so I would say although you may get away with using the newer chargers that do their charging I would say peace of mind just use your older charges because something like this is 10 years old and it's still up to scratch this was the only charger I could find in the whole house this one here this old charger here for from a very old cheap phone this was the only charger I could find that really wouldn't be up to scratch and again this will still charge your controller overnight but have a look and you'll probably find that most of your chargers are rated at 800 900 or 1000 milliamps in which case then go ahead and use them it'd be absolutely fine so I hope you found this video useful and please subscribe if you want more how-to videos and give it a thumbs up if you liked it take care bye now

Channel: My Mate VINCE

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Keywords: ps4 controller buring out, how to charge a ps4 controller, charging a dualshock 4 controller, charge a ps3 controller via a wall outlet, charging a ds4 via a phone charger, using a usb charger to charge up a playstation controller, how to charge ps4 controller without a charging cable, charging a dualshock 4 controller via AC wall adapter, ps4 dualshock 4 alternative charging methods

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Length: 10min 57sec (657 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 06 2016