"BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> wrote in message
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> "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.
>

Correct. the over current protection must be, "... self reseting without
user intervention.".