Newbie: Is a constant closed USB circuit bad?

What kind of USB type you are reffering?

Thx for the reply. Any version. Even old 1.1 is sufficient.

My idea: I want to attach a tiny mercury switch to my pivoting monitor that automatically runs a tiny program to change the screen resolution when I rotate the monitor, and switch it back when rotated back (it's an annoying cumberson task to do by hand.)

So it doesn't need hardly any power at all and doesn't need speed. But current will be running thru the device 24/7.

Yeah that can be done.seems complex.

The complexity is not in the code to run on USB, but to detect the orientation and sending back the info to manipulate the Video driver of the Laptop/PC. It is a teadous job to do it. Hope there are better option to solve the problem.

Thanks, but this is not complext at all. I plan to clip a tiny mercury switch to top of the monitor that is connected via USB. When flat, the circut is closed & the switch is on. Set a flag in the software and the program does nothing. Pivot the monitor, the circut is broken, the software toggles your resolution & the orientation flag (not complex). Pivot back, check orientation flag, if it changed, switch the resolution back.

It's really a rather simplistic.device.

Yeah that is a good idea. Please share the output so everyone get benifitted from this who is willing to follow your path. Thanks a lot.