On Mon, 07 Apr 2003 00:04:14 GMT, Jonathan Bond <
[email protected]> scribbled:
>They were fairly smart and put a huge capacitor in there, IIRC. You can't pull THAT much power over
>a USB line. Of course, it means you need to leave in plugged in all the time... why not just get a
>normal one and do the 5 seconds of legwork to figure out how long to cook it?
>
>Jon Bond
They should have went with the obvious connection for an item like that - Firewire. They could have
tied that in fairly well. "Draws heat from your IEEE1394 ("Firewire") connection"
-Slash
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