Wall Charger for the Neo ?

Stanislav Karchebny berkus at gmail.com
Sat Nov 17 02:16:05 CET 2007


On Friday 16 November 2007 18:42:05 Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> Stroller writes:
> >On 15 Nov 2007, at 23:38, Pranav Desai wrote:
> >> Just for curiosity, from a design perspective why wouldn't or
> >> shouldn't the hardware/software start drawing 500mA and then fall back
> >> to 100mA if not available ?
> >
> >Because once you've tried drawing 500mA the blue smoke will escape
> >from the host & 100mA will _no longer_ be available.
>
> I can't be sure without having tested it, but I certainly hope the
> various USB hosts and hubs I've got are better designed than that.

We have had success burning out USB ports in IBM notebooks previously.

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