Ongoing Cronus Testing and Investigation

So I recently heard people talking about banning the Cronus because it 'burns out usb ports' and 'causes other controllers to drop inputs'. This sounded funny to me, as we've been using the Cronus extensively in Vancouver for over a year since we get them through Canadian Joysticks at a good price and we have a lot of pad players and people that don't want to invest in a dual mod, and we've yet to have reports of anything of the sort, despite using them on all makes and models, and extensively at weeklies and tournaments for over a year. Not a single console damaged, and not a single complaint of other players 'dropping inputs' The whole thing just seemed really fishy. So I actually did some testing on the original Cronus.

I do not at this time have access to a CronusMax or XboxOne, so I cannot test them at this time, but I believe that the results will be similar.

So I cut up a USB extension and took some current readings last night.



This is what my PS360+ stick draws from a Chrome face launch fat PS3



this is the cronus alone



And here is the combined draw of both under load as I do a big fat Chaos Code Exceed Combo



The max load on a USB 2.0 port is 0.5A, this comes in at well under that and after 5 hours of being left plugged in the device was still cool to the touch. USB burnouts seem just about impossible, if you have personally experienced a burnout (not just heard about one), please tell me about it and we'll look and see what's up with that; but otherwise I'm calling that particular claim dead.

I'm currently working on a rig that will alternate between P and K on button press so I can count any missed P->K cylcles in an input display on a stick plugged in next to a cronus, two sticks with cronuses, and two sticks with no cronus to test the "forces dropped inputs" but a combination of that not being how USB communication works and Iplaywinner results in doing a 'toodles test' makes me doubtful that there will be a satistically significant difference between test groups.

If you have any actual accounts regarding problems with the cronus device, please tweet at me CxR_Coren. Please do not waste my time with second hand accounts, or claims of 'I dropped my combo' because I need actual details and not rumours and subjective things that can be explained by human input error.