18 Aug
2008
18 Aug
'08
12:29 p.m.
On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 10:33 -0700, Chuck Guzis wrote:
http://www.poweredusb.org/
<rant on>
Good grief, not another LNL connector! I despise those things
something awful. Stupid locking tabs that eventually get brittle and
break off. It might have worked okay for telephones (I'm not
convinced of that entirely), but for frequently-connected and dis-
connected USB devices? [groan] I assume that it's done that way for
one reason--because it's cheap.
From past experience, with IBM EPOS equipment, the
connectors are pretty
tough - not brittle polycarbonate like RJ45 plugs, but a kind
of "chewy"
polyurethane. For the very very few connect/disconnect cycles
anticipated, they're way overspecified.
Not even the most ham-fisted field circus engineer could break them.
Gordon