• Aasikki@sopuli.xyz
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    9 months ago

    But why not make a dual screw design by adding one more screw to the bottom of the current single screw one? Would be more compact and allow them to be more cross compatible.

    • ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      PCB are designed with things on top of them. Typically they are mounted with the bottom of the PCB at the bottom of a case. So following normal conventions there wouldn’t be a place for the bottom screw to go into something. Unless you used a bespoke case. It’s much easier to have the two screw design place the screws above the PCB.

      It may seem like a minor change, but it costs substantial more in design time and effort. New folded steel cases and injection moulded cases would have to be developed. Designers would use a different port, or worse deploy their own two horizontal screw design. There would then be several two screw designs (metric/imperial/very close/very far etc).

      Anyone with the niche need of the two screw vertical design would likely rotate the whole connector or use a flex cable to join the connector to the main board.