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I wonder if this one cable was miswired or it's something consistently wrong with the product. Either way that something like that could make it out of the factory demonstrates terrible or no QA/QC.

I've never used the Twinkie but it looks pretty cool. This shows that it may be worth adding some simple protection to the circuit to prevent simple miswires from damaging it or the host PC.




>I wonder if this one cable was miswired or it's something consistently wrong with the product.

He bought more to find out: https://plus.google.com/+BensonLeung/posts/EBGMagC46fN


> He bought more to find out:

I don't think so. From TFP:

"Here are some pictures of the torn down SurjTech 3M cable that fried my Pixel."

Cable, singular. :)


From one of his comments

>I ordered one more of each of Surjtech's products before they pulled their listing today, so yes.


Yeah, that's what the amazon review details. The ground is miswired.


The question isn't what was wrong with the cable, but whether it was just this one specific cable, or whether it's all of the cables in from this production run.


Right, and either way the fact that this cable made it out of the factory to see the light of day says terrible things about this manufacturer.




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