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Switchable USB Hub

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dicky96:
Hi guys
I bought this switchable USB hub thingy at the car boot sale this morning.  To be honest I don't know why I bought it, I don't have any particular use for it, it just looked kinda.... cool... and I had 5 euros lying around in my pocket. 

Now I don't have 5 euros - I have this thing instead lol  :P  It has 7 individually switchable USB sockets and an external PSU connector

Somehow I think this must be useful around the workshop but I have no clear idea why it would be lol. 

Any ideas (good or otherwise) what it would be really useful for?

soldar:
I suspect that is not really a data hub but just a bunch of USB charging ports. Can you confirm that?

dicky96:
No it's not

My PC detects it as Generic USB Hub.

If I plug a flash drive in and then turn the corresponding switch, the blue LED over the switch turns on and it detects the flash drive and I can access it.

If I then turn that switch off the light goes out flash drive disappears again

What's this thing meant for?  :-//

soldar:
So it is a hub which can be used the same as any other hub with the added convenience that you can disconnect a device without having to physically unplug it.

Jeroen3:
It only switches power. So self-powered devices still work.


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