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#18
Originally Posted by Master of Gizmo View Post
You damaged the generator in your car? That's pretty odd for several reasons:
  1. There's a fuse between the generator and the socket in your car to prevent damage from shortcircuits
  2. The generator is able to charge a car battery which by far exceeds anything you n900 will ever draw
  3. There's a battery in your car being able to take load of your generator. This battery is able to provide several thousand amps.

To summarize: Whatever you plug into your car will burn and smoke way before any harm to the generator is being caused.
Well, I think most likely that the generator in question was near its death anyway and this charger was just the last straw. Some components inside the charger did melt. Also, the car in question is Lada.