SSc v4 "do I understand this right?"

[taybrynn]

Just be careful because if you happen to have a faulty SSC and you plug it into every port on your SS HUB ... you may have just blown every fuse on the hub.  Probably not, but I always use the first good port on the hub.  One year I had a shorted SSC and I blew the first port fuse before I stopped and tried another SSC (one I knew was working on another hub) on the first port and then it didn't work.  THen I tried the second port and realized my faulty SSC was blowing the fuse on any port I put it on.  So I ended up reworking that SSC and that particular hub has two blown ports on it which I will fix some rainy day.

[arw01]

Or in my case I have a "special" port #4 that I blew and now will use that for passive hub connections with their own 12v power supply and don't have to worry about anything else besides the passive now.

Alan

[caretaker]

For those of you that may have missed it a "tester" was designed using a 470 ohm resistor and a LED with a RJ45 plug to test to see if you have power on a SS hub port.  Steve Case then updated the idea in this post: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login

[arw01]

oh sure, AFTER I put in the mouser order..  But know I know what i can do with all these pigtail ends!

Thanks for the link.

[wwwgator]

here is a simple tester I made a while ago

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