USB-C PD: New Technology Done Right
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There is a tendency as we get older, to retreat into an instinctive suspicion of anything new or associated with young people. All of us will know older people who have fallen down this rabbit hole…

I wanted to share this opinion on Hackaday about a topic that is the usefulness of a something that has become ubiquitous relatively fast.

This techonolgyy has a lot of potential, what do you think?

  • Flipper@feddit.deEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Oh boy do I have something for you. The single pair ethernet standards. Connect 8 devices on the same line as a bus.

    • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      That would only allow PoE+, which limits devices to 25.5W. Speed would be limited to 100Mbps. Still enough for lights, though.

    • Dale'sDeadBug@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Didn’t realize that was part of the spec. But wouldn’t that be 4 devices? 2 wires per device for tx/rx and power +/-.

      • Flipper@feddit.deEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        No. It’s a single twisted pair wire to connect at least 8 devices over a minimum distance of 25m. However the speed is only 10MBit. The spec is called base10-t1s