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...ohm's law ? P = U * I. Yall skipped high school physics or something? USB cables can only get so thick. And voltages only can get so high to not be dangerou
by ilyt 3y ago
...ohm's law ? P = U * I. Yall skipped high school physics or something?
USB cables can only get so thick. And voltages only can get so high to not be dangerous to people.
- derefr 3y agoIt's not really the thickness of the cable, is it? The constrained part, that has to stay the same regardless of what cable you buy, is the thickness of the pins on the connector. Where, presumably, any resistive heat from that connection is dumped into the body of the device being charged (just like resistive heat from operating a 1600W space heater with a big, thick extension cable gets dumped into your the electrical box behind the socket it's plugged into.)
- ilyt 3y agoThe pins go very short way so even if the resistance of them is far higher than a cable they are pretty short to dissipate any significant power. At least from my experience in sketchy connections. But yeah, definitely another limit here Voltage too, at some point it would just be too close for the voltage and would start arcing.