"Ian Singer" <iansinger@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:5b1d0pF2qrl2aU1@mid.individual.net
> BillW50 wrote:
>> "none" <nospam@bogusaddress.com> wrote in message
>> news:FJH2i.8686$ya1.2888@news02.roc.ny
>>
>>> a POWER SURGE ON USB HUB indicates to me either an over current or
>>> over voltage condition occurred. IF that is the case one must wonder
>>> it the mobo voltage converter which supplies USB voltage/current is
>>> intact. ___
>>
>>
>> Yes, but USB specs even allows the USB device to be even a dead
>> short, and it isn't supposed to do anything bad, but just shut down
>> the supply safely until the load is removed. Well that is the way it
>> is supposed to work anyway. :)
>>
> But some have a fuse that needs replacing.
>
> Ian Singer

I thought a fuse was diallowed by the spec? As the average consumer
isn't suppose to be in there anyway.

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Bill