How much current can I draw from the data pins of a parallel port?
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I want to power something using the parallel port of on an old Dell Dimension 8200. How much current can be drawn from each of the 8 the data pins? I have pulled a maximum of 78mA/pin so far, but what is the upper limit? Can I short pins together to raise this limit? EDIT: So far I see that powerin…
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The parallel ports are not designed to provide any stable amount of power, they use just enough current to send data between two devices. Even if there were enough power on the parallel port you couldn't guarantee that it would work on all or even m…
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