Revolutionary PCB-integrated USB fuse technology!

[Agent24]

Cheap Chinese PCBs are so cheap they blow before the fuse does!

[mmartell]

Re: Revolutionary PCB-integrated USB fuse technology!

"We've found a way to eliminate a component and save money!" So this is what the race to the bottom looks like ?

To be fair I've seen a few boards with evaporated traces though I can't say for sure they didn't come from China, lol.

[stj]

Re: Revolutionary PCB-integrated USB fuse technology!

i have actually seen fuse-tracks.
they look like a pair of triangles pointing at each other.

[fzabkar]

Re: Revolutionary PCB-integrated USB fuse technology!

Maybe the fuse was the cheapest part. ;-)

[Agent24]

Re: Revolutionary PCB-integrated USB fuse technology!

i have actually seen fuse-tracks.
they look like a pair of triangles pointing at each other.

Well that's something I didn't know before! The only triangles on PCBs I know of are the ones in spark gaps.

Maybe the fuse was the cheapest part. ;-)

Heh. Joking aside, the motherboard uses PTC polyfuses on the USB ports, and it probably just didn't trip fast enough. The USB port works fine with the trace repaired.