Re:Ever Plugged a USB in Wrong? (2019)
by PaulHoule on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @01:20PM
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When the port fails you buy a new one: ka-ching!
My playstation vita has limped along for years with a finicky edge connector that takes some care to get it to charge. The vita is astonishingly easy to do field repairs on, but you can't replace that connector. It's a good thing that the kind of games I like to play on the Vita come out on Steam these days.
Many electronic devices EOL because of problems with connectors. When I was an undergrad, I think every engineering student in the world had an HP28S calculator, in which the springs would eventually push the batteries right through the battery door. People tried taping it, but short from running it on a bench power supply, none of those engineering students found a great answer to fix it.
My playstation vita has limped along for years with a finicky edge connector that takes some care to get it to charge. The vita is astonishingly easy to do field repairs on, but you can't replace that connector. It's a good thing that the kind of games I like to play on the Vita come out on Steam these days.
Many electronic devices EOL because of problems with connectors. When I was an undergrad, I think every engineering student in the world had an HP28S calculator, in which the springs would eventually push the batteries right through the battery door. People tried taping it, but short from running it on a bench power supply, none of those engineering students found a great answer to fix it.