On Thursday 12 December 2019 08:53:10 Todd Zuercher wrote: > You can not set the 5i25 to supply power to an ordinary breakout board > made for a parallel port, because the pins used for suppling the power > are used as grounds and are (usually ) all tied together on the > breakout. (You'd short the 5v rail of your PC through the 5i25.) > > But there are separate jumpers on the 5i25 for setting 5v power for > each port. So you can power either one separately or from the 5i25. > (see pg 2 of the manual for the 5i25) > Aha! I was not aware of that. Is that a recent change? I am not sure its mentioned in the printouts I have done, which are several years old now. And maybe my boards are older? This will certainly take some exploration.
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