It ' s been decided . These things are determined usually a month beforehand <| sep |> 1 . Never heard of it . 2 . I was naive to think this kind of thing didn ' t happen by using the unit per instructions . I always assumed when this kinda thing happened , it was a user doing something he shouldn ' t have been . This thing was plugged in less than an hour when it started smoking and popping . It wasn ' t fully charged and I ' ve never had any problems with this unit or the 4 other on board chargers I ' ve owned previously over 2 years . I ' m googling Nitecore now . And the batteries aren ' t removable as far as I can tell <| sep |> Some may use their boxes to encode videos , others for multiple 1080 p Plex streams , others maybe for something else . But yes .