alt Hacker NewsPrevious well-designed video cards used the technologies I described. Eliminating the sense circuits and fusing is a recent development.
I do like the idea of just using big wires. It’d be so much cleaner and simpler. Also using 24 or 48V would be nice, but that’d be an even bigger departure from current designs.
> Previous well-designed video cards used the technologies I described. Eliminating the sense circuits and fusing is a recent development.
My point is that the PCB is where such features would be present, not the connector. There are connectors that have fusing. The UK’s AC power plugs are examples of them. The connectors inside PCs are not.