slowmo on 12 June 2013
| ethomaz said: Your assumptions are reasonable and can be true. Heat issues changes a project design. The only issue for is "why the power brick outside the box?". |
Perhaps because if you get a spike in power you can easily replace it, obviously it reduces heat in the box and save space on your shelf too. It means in future revisions its also easy to manufacture newer power boards as you're not having to take into account what effect it will have on the rest of a consoles internals. It can also mean you need less shielding in your device to stop the PSU interfering. There are lots of reasons to put a external PSU. The real question is what's the point engineering a internal PSU given the potential negatives?
