Exactly!
TweetyDaBird
joined 1 year ago
I wasn’t planning on it since sacrifices two pins.
And seeing as the USB port is available to place by the edge very easily as you can place the controller over any key.
To explain, the USB port should end up needing only 3-5 mm edge on a sandwich case, or a hollow similar to how most pcb’s place it on a CNC/3d case.
Any particular reason beyond that? I’m open to reasonable compromises.
Btw, I can easily pull them out to a pair of pads, there is space for that.
I guess an image says more than a thousand words?
That’s not he projected range shown on the display. That’s the actual range the battery will give you.
They temporarily removed a bit of the safety margin built in to reduce battery wear, allowing people to get out of harms way without a stop to charge if they were on the limit. But only for people moving away from The affected area, etc. so smart and helpful.
Just keep in mind, that placing the controller not at an edge, will likely make the USB port interfere with the next socket, it's not really meant for that. Meaning you should probably de-solder the port then. Also, by powering through the 5V/GND pins, you negate the VBUS detection, and there simply aren't enough pins/space to break that out as well, so it's a compromise.