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Bowman: A battery depleted Surface can’t be charged from the Surface Dock

Posted on August 27, 2018 at 16:29 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

Interesting observation from Barb Bowman, on digitalmediaphile.

The reason why this is happening is that the power supply of the dock (although it is 80W) reserves 30W of its power to the ports on the dock, this means that only 50W is available to the Surface Pro. This unfortunately is not enough to trigger the charging/booting.

Can anyone confirm?

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