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BobA:
How about this for the future.

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Le Chuck:

--- Quote from: BobA on February 19, 2012, 01:41:20 pm ---How about this for the future.

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SavannahLion:
Jesus, what a dumb idea. It's the blind leading the blind kind of thing.

I'm not going to get into vacuum cleaners or that kind of thing, I don't know what the maximum draw on standard USB connectors are capable of, and quite frankly, I don't care.

What this fails to address is the long term life span of the ubiquitous "A" socket. I fully expect wall sockets to have long lives, twenty, thirty or more years without the need for replacement. I can guarantee that USB ports do not have anywhere near this operational life expectency. I have PC's with worn USB ports and the USB consortium apparently acknowledges this with the move of the locking mechanism on the micro USB port.

A valiant idea but this just has epic FAIL written all over it unless they decide to shift to a new standard "A" plug with a much longer life span than what? 2000ish inserts? A laptop where I average about 4 insert/remove cycles a day, that works out to be about 1.4 years before it wears out. That's almost exactly when my first laptop USB port failed (1.5 years actually) before I had to repair it. Yeah, brilliant idea. Let's add one more thing to have to fix every few years in this throw away society.   :banghead:

Howard_Casto:
Agreed... I won't even get into how dangerous this could be....having a low voltage input so close to a high voltage source without any substancial kind of insulation in-between... well even though it's safe in theory I would always be scared to plug a 200+ dollar usb device into that.

I think the way apple does it is pretty nice... a simple electrical plug to usb adaptor.  It doesn't take up a lot of room and if you need multiple sockets you can either hook a usb hub up to it, or get a surge protector and plug in multiple adaptors.

BobA:

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--- Quote from: BobA on February 19, 2012, 01:41:20 pm ---How about this for the future.

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