It’s happened to everyone: you quickly remove your phone from the charger, but the cord remains dangling from the wall socket like if it were on vacation. Ultimately, what could possibly go wrong?
Apparently, there is more going on here than meets the eye with this apparently innocuous deed. Listed below are some of the potential consequences of leaving a phone’s charger plugged into an outlet without the device.
The unseen energy hog hiding in your wall has to be addressed first. Even without a connected device, your charger will continue to take a limited amount of power when left plugged in. Ghost power, often called vampire energy, is a subtle phenomena that may lead to higher electricity costs in the long run.
In the long run, you might wind up paying for power that you aren’t really utilizing, even if it doesn’t seem like much now.
Leaving your charger plugged in while you’re not around it might cause fires, which is far more dangerous than the financial consequences. I don’t want to imply that your charger is hatching a scheme to set your house on fire, but mishaps can happen.
The danger of overheating rises when you leave your charger plugged in without any device connected, even though it is meant to properly deliver energy to your device. Your once-cozy home might become a catastrophe zone in the event of an electrical fire caused by this accumulation of heat.
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