Am 17.08.2007 um 19:19 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Tilman Baumann wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are there plans to provide a car adapter for the Neo?
This is a general problem. Where are USB-Power Adator out there.
Also for cars.
But most of them just power the 5V line. This is bad with 99% of
the bad behaving usb gadgets out there.
But Neo is prolite and asks the host if it could draw it's 500mA
and if not only takes 100mA out of the bus.
This is how the usb specs tell you to do it.
But most devices (like usb microovens and the like) just draw
power as there would be no tomorrow and don't care how much the
host can privice. If your usb-powersupply burns out - bummer. :)
Don't know if I understood right. Do you mean,
Sorry. I don't remember being drunk when i wrote this. But you are
right, it's completely bad written. :)
the Neo asks the power supply how much power it's able to provide?
Why should the Neo do this?
This is part of the USB power management system. Which is clearly
defined in the USB specs.
Like I described below I guess
the Neo uses the 5V channel only for charging, and so
the 500mA are always okay.
500mA is quite a lot power if you drain it from a bus which is maybe
provided by a mobile device. Or imagine dozens of such devices on one
bus.
Therefore the host (where the power comes from) can tell each USB
device how much power it is allowed to use.
This is needed, because the cost can not just cut power from the
ports that are overloading, because it is a bus. (All devices sit in
one boat. So they have to cooperate.)
(Most, but not all USB chips have build in fuses to prevent actual
overloading of the whole bus. But not all!)
Why not use a normal 500mA
power supply then?
Mainly, because USB was never intended to be a power supply.
Sure the stable and most the time quite powerful 5V from USB proved
very useful for many gadgets. And it is quite normal to just hook
your average USB coffee machine or cooking stove on the 5V line and
don't care. But in reality, this is just bad.
But the Neo is not built by assholes that don't care. ;-)
And it is just sophisticated enough to do it right anyway. (And
implementing the USB power management at least in a rudimentary way
is the normal way to go for everything that has some smart silicon in
it.)
I see the problem with this attitude. and as i know FIC and the
openmoko guys do too.
So i guess there will be a solution soon. Either a "don't be smart
and don't care about specs" overwrite button for charging on a dumb
USB power supply, or a advice which charger to buy.
For the mean time. Use you computer to charge your moko and never let
it run out of power so you don't need the 100mA charging while the
device is in 'dump' (as in switched off) mode.
Regards
Tilman
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