Re: USB Power
Colin, I'd go with a powered hub. There's room for expantion their. Joe At 10:27 14/01/2011, you wrote: Hi List, I have bought an external hard drive with no power supply, ie gets power from lap top It came with 2 USB connnections and I now know why My machine I am plugging it into is old and is just being used for music but has only one USB port. The drive will not spin up on the power for one only and hence I cannot use for this application. Is there any small cheap USB power source i.e battery or even mains that I can plug second USB into to increase power. I have tested this on my powered USB hub for my main machine and it works but that is overkill and more expensive than I would want to solve this issue? Thanks as alwayss Colin To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: USB Power
the problem he is running into is that type of drive uses the USB for both power and data transfer. - Original Message - From: "Christopher Chaltain" To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 5:00 AM Subject: Re: USB Power If one of the USB connections is only used for power, I wonder if one of those cheap AC to USB power connectors would work. Christopher chalt...@gmail.com <mailto:chalt...@gmail.com> On 1/14/2011 4:27 AM, Colin Phelan wrote: Hi List, I have bought an external hard drive with no power supply, ie gets power from lap top It came with 2 USB connnections and I now know why My machine I am plugging it into is old and is just being used for music but has only one USB port. The drive will not spin up on the power for one only and hence I cannot use for this application. Is there any small cheap USB power source i.e battery or even mains that I can plug second USB into to increase power. I have tested this on my powered USB hub for my main machine and it works but that is overkill and more expensive than I would want to solve this issue? Thanks as alwayss Colin To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: USB Power
If one of the USB connections is only used for power, I wonder if one of those cheap AC to USB power connectors would work. Christopher chalt...@gmail.com <mailto:chalt...@gmail.com> On 1/14/2011 4:27 AM, Colin Phelan wrote: Hi List, I have bought an external hard drive with no power supply, ie gets power from lap top It came with 2 USB connnections and I now know why My machine I am plugging it into is old and is just being used for music but has only one USB port. The drive will not spin up on the power for one only and hence I cannot use for this application. Is there any small cheap USB power source i.e battery or even mains that I can plug second USB into to increase power. I have tested this on my powered USB hub for my main machine and it works but that is overkill and more expensive than I would want to solve this issue? Thanks as alwayss Colin To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
USB Power
Hi List, I have bought an external hard drive with no power supply, ie gets power from lap top It came with 2 USB connnections and I now know why My machine I am plugging it into is old and is just being used for music but has only one USB port. The drive will not spin up on the power for one only and hence I cannot use for this application. Is there any small cheap USB power source i.e battery or even mains that I can plug second USB into to increase power. I have tested this on my powered USB hub for my main machine and it works but that is overkill and more expensive than I would want to solve this issue? Thanks as alwayss Colin To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org