alt Hacker NewsMight help a little bit, by heatsinking the contacts better, but the problem is the contact resistance, not the wire resistance. The connector itself dangerously heats up.
Or at least I think so? Was that a different 12VHPWR scandal?
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ryao • last Saturday at 3:11 AM
I thought that the contact resistance caused the unbalanced wires, which then overheat alongside the connector, giving the connector’s heat nowhere to go.
chris11 • last Saturday at 7:19 AM
I think it's both contact and wire resistance.
It is technically possible to solder a new connector on. LTT did that in a video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzwrLLg1RR4
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Contact resistance is a problem.
Another problem is when the connector is angled, several of the pins may not make contact, shoving all the power through as few as one wire. A common bus would help this but the contact resistance in this case is still bad.