Re: Conflicting information
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For me, it's a bad-habit thing. If I get used to having two power sources connected, some day, just as sure as I"m sitting here, I'm going to plug in two power sources and get a min-Fourth of July show as I watch the magic white smoke that runs all electronic devices evaporate in front of me. I just think that, unless explicit told to do so, I just prefer to have a single power source.
Jack, W8TEE
From: davemrtn <davemrtn@...>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, June 1, 2017 8:33 AM
Subject: Re: [BITX20] Conflicting information
Actually, I don't think it
will have any effect on the computer usb port.
The reason it would not harm
the usb port is defined in the Arduino Nano schematic...
Look at the schematic -?
The Nano has this magic little 'check valve' called
a diode.
David Martin - - Mountain
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On 6/1/2017 01:07, Dr Fred Hambrecht
wrote:
It
should not be done.? Putting two sources in parallel that
may be at a different potential is never a good idea. While
it may ?or may not hurt the BITX, it could play hell with
the computer USB port.
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v/r
Fred
W4JLE
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Thanks! Powering something from 2 sources
simultaneously scares me as I already
blew up an expensive gimmick that way!
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