Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “DBrand’s Killswitch Has Been Killed”.
All right, what do you want to talk about next um? Should we talk about dbrand, lab 69 also wasn’t available. We did check oh yeah yeah. Let’S talk about debris, 7000, yikes, bad situation. Do you know about this? I didn’t actually the the magnet used to attach the kickstand to the rear of the kill switch case can affect the RPM of the internal fan of certain steam decks. That’S a problem.
Yeah! That’S not good valve was initially shipping the steam Deck with fans from two different, oh that sucks okay, so they were shipping the fans to two different suppliers. So tldr I haven’t even read it yet, but I’m sure it’s going to go there. One of the fans is not going to be affected by this, and I’m sure this is the one that the dbrand was working with the dbrandt that dbrand was working with and the other one is affected by it. So yeah it sounds like the Delta version of the fans are affected by the magnet and then I have no idea how to pronounce this.
Probably I don’t know yeah sure those ones are not affected by the magnet um yeah and okay yeah steam decks used by dbrand for testing all have the weighing fans or, however, they pronounced fan speeds dropped by 1500 to 2500 rpm. That’S a big problem! That’S a huge problem: this is a mobile device. You don’t screw around with cooling for a mobile device, yeah they’re, usually pre-dialed in it’s, not cool yeah yeah. This fan Behavior went unnoticed by other content creators.
Press Outlets until the Verge were shipped a few kill, switch cases. Dbrand borrowed a Delta fan equipped model from YouTuber, a really cool guy dave2d and confirmed the findings by The Verge. After confirming the issue, dbrand made an 11th Hour decision to suspend all kill, switch sales per dbrand word on.
The Grapevine is that valve no longer uses the whiny Delta fan in the production of seam decks, switching exclusively to the Ying component, which is the one that isn’t affected. So that’s good. I guess yeah, but they’re still out there yeah and we don’t. We have no way if No One’s Gon na know which one it is without taking it apart and yeah as cool as as it is that you can do that most users are not going to want to do that. Um.
After confirming the issue. Dbrand May oh yeah yeah. I think I already said that, but they’re they’re suspending all kill switch sales which sucks per D brand. Oh, I already talked about all this.
Where am I? The issue is limited to the magnetic kickstand, the case itself. Travel cover, stick, grips and tempered glass screen protectors, do not cause any issues so that we know of yet yeah yeah, probably not okay, so maybe we’ll see those separately or something that should be fine. This it’s there’s no magnets in the other ones, so yeah it should be fine, yeah, oh and unfortunately, because I thought the magnetic system was super cool.
Well, I don’t think it’s necessarily going away. It is in response to this discovery. Dbrand is pivoting from the magnetic Mount to a mechanical interlocking system for the kickstand and future accessories.
So what’s going to happen is if you already ordered a magnetic version, one you’re gon na get that and then they’re gon na also send you a mechanical one. Just in case, you find it causes a problem with your system in case. Well, because that’s the thing you might not notice it causes a problem, so they want people using the mechanical one. Now I a Savvy user, I’m gon na open up my steam deck, make sure I’ve got a wah Ying fan and I’m gon na use. My I’m gon na use my magnetic one five ever, but that’s not gon na help.
Anyone else uh, if you have a Delta one, you can buy a steam deck fan replacement from iFixit. Yes, that’s true! I can’t tell if this is Delta or Ying um, but considering they said they’re gon na stop working. It should be why yep um. So that’s! That’S an option: if it comes down to that rough day for dbrand yeah that sucks, you don’t want to go through all that product development. Everything and have a problem like.
Oh all, the units that you had happened to have the fan that it would be fine with, like that’s so unfortunate, that just sucks .