<div dir="auto">Add: the powered hub has a USB B superspeed 10 wire connector ... And a USB-A connector at the very end. Two parts with five pins each at the powered hub and one four pin at the other end. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://somanytech.com/usb-wiring-diagram-micro-usb-pinout-guide/">https://somanytech.com/usb-wiring-diagram-micro-usb-pinout-guide/</a><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 6, 2021, 04:59 Samudra Haque <<a href="mailto:samudra.haque@gmail.com">samudra.haque@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Hi, a recent amazon USB powered hub I installed provides **backfeed** to the DC/DC converter that I installed in a chassis to power the same USB hub. I wanted a USB hub for servicing the various FPGA and MCU development boards ... But didn't expect the hub itself to power the DC/DC board in reverse direction when the DC power input cable is disconnected! And guess where it is drawing the the (albeit low power) ?<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The hub is drawing from my laptop (both 2.x and 3.x ports)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">For those of you that might have seen backfeed is this part of the USB power protocol? </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Mitigation tips?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">73 de N3RDX</div></div>
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