External usb-c hardware failure protection

A method comprising:

• detecting a short circuit at a transistor group conductively coupled between a first voltage conductor and a first voltage conductor to a voltage bus (VBUS) conductor on a universal serial bus (USB) port, the short circuit detected at a voltage sense circuit;
• and
• reducing a short circuit voltage between the first voltage conductor and the VBUS conductor in response to detecting the short circuit.

At least one non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, comprising a plurality of instructions that, responsive to being executed with processor circuitry of a computer-controlled device, cause the processor circuitry to:

• detect a short circuit at a transistor group conductively coupled between a first voltage conductor and a first voltage conductor to a voltage bus (VBUS) conductor on a universal serial bus (USB) port, the short circuit detected at a voltage sense circuit;
• and
• reduce a short circuit voltage between the first voltage conductor and the VBUS conductor in response to detecting the short circuit.