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Well, that's something barrel plugs had going for them way before data connectors caught up :)
by thermin 5y ago
Well, that's something barrel plugs had going for them way before data connectors caught up :)
- OJFord 5y agoAnd then some - hadn't really thought about it until your comment, but somehow we regressed from infinite orientations (well, in that plane) to one, and are now all excited about having two... Are there any example of barrel-style connectors with >2 pins, i.e. coaxial barrels? Similar is the 'jack' (3.5mm and such) but with split regions along a single pin rather than concentric rings of course. I wonder why such designs aren't more popular/explored (that I'm aware of anyway) for multi-pin data connections?
- ajsnigrutin 5y agoThere were barrels with three.. eg lenovo, two charger generations ago: https://i.imgur.com/Wn4EM33.png https://i.imgur.com/Wn4EM33.png But usually the inner one was only connected via a resistor, to tell the device the wattage of the charger (but could be used by a bunch of 1 wire protocols instead.