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I've found that if you try to plug a USB male into a USB 3.0 jack backwards, you can wedge the male connector substrate under the female connector substrate, ca
by kawfey 7y ago
I've found that if you try to plug a USB male into a USB 3.0 jack backwards, you can wedge the male connector substrate under the female connector substrate, causing it's connectors to short circuit with the housing, blowing a polyfuse that shuts the PC down abruptly. The problem is the substrate on the female connectors isn't adhered to the wall of the connector, and can bend far enough to touch the opposite wall and blow.
I'm surprised there's not more stories like this lately.
- dmead 7y agodear cosmo...
- gruez 7y ago>I'm surprised there's not more stories like this lately. Probably because what you describe requires an unusually high amount of force to be applied to the connector, causing most people to stop before damage is done.
- rasz 7y agocan != its easy. Your story reminds me of my girlfriend plugging old PATA Hard drive MOLEX power cable backwards (12V to 5V and vice versa), I noticed, at the last moment, because it 'only' plugged 3/4 the way in. Mind you MOLEX is designed in a way making such connection impossible, at least in theory :).