If you have a peripheral that draws its power from the Mac through a FireWire cable, can an overly long cable significantly reduce the power getting to the peripheral? I've got an analog-to-digital video converter box at the end of a fifteen foot FW cable that has died twice on me, and I'm wondering if that's why. This G-4 is also loaded with internal hard drives and cards that may be straining its power supply to begin with.
The long FW cable shouldn't adversely affect the Video ADC. From what I know of FW the supply voltage is not fixed. This means the peripherals are likely using a switching regulator to provide 3.3, 5, 12 or other voltages. Any voltage drop in the line would be compensated for by the regulator.
The switching power supply in the computer is overload protected so if that was a problem you'd know it because the whole computer would shut down.
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