"Danny D." wrote in message
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Ian Field wrote, on Mon, 30 Nov 2015 22:05:26 +0000:

If the one you tried melted the USB cable and overheated the appliance,
something is clearly wrong.

I think the cable was bad, because it's rare for a charger to
put out *more* than the 2.4Amps that it says a port can output.

Had you considered it might be putting out more than the 5V its supposed to?