Depends on the USB port. You may end up blowing some protection on your motherboard, or worse. OTOH it may be just fine - my HP laptop has one port rated at 2A to power external DVD and HDD. Most devices that draw >500mA have a Y-cable so they can pull power from 2 sockets.
On Thursday 27 March 2008, Federico Lorenzi wrote: > I was just about to ask, what would happen if I enabled 1A charging > when the Freerunner was plugged into a normal USB port? AFAIK some > devices do draw more then spec (USB laptop hdds come to mind), and > these seem to work fine. > > Cheers > Federico > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
