Small warning about passthroughts

[Drunkwaco]

Ok so i just got my 510 Passthrought on tuesday. I've been using it full force (lovin it!!!!). Anyways yesterday (Thursday) while i was raiding in World of warcraft. Out of no where my keyboard went blank. Then i noticed my headset was also not working. After some review i found that everything i had plugged in to my USB was not working at all. No signal or anything. I tryed many different self learned technics to attempt to fix this. (safe mode to test for virus/adware issues. some driver issue checks. and even USB port one by one checks. Nothing!...
After driving to my friends house to google this problem. I finally found it.
Mind you this may have nothing to do with the passthrought at all. What i had was a static charge trapped in the USB ports. I fully Shut down and Unplugged my computer and hit the off switch as well. and left it off for 30 mins. Then put all back togather and it worked like a charm. Everything is working again.
Just a heads up incase this happens to others that may be doing a lot of unplugging/plugging in the USB slots.
Very tried sorry it looks so ulgy

 

[NightShadow]

As a fellow raider I can empathize, hope you did not miss the boss lewts!

As a suggestion to prevent further raid stopping incidents, consider something like this: USB Dual Power Adapter For the money one can hardly go wrong and I read posts of a lot of people in the Puresmoker forums using them with the PS passthoughs so am sure they would be equally good with any others as the ps pass is very hefty.

 

[Hellen A. Handbasket]

If you have an iPod, you can use that USB charging wall plug adapter with your passthroughs. I stole my husbands until I purchased 5 of them on DealExtreme for $2.50 each (the same thing they sell for $30 at BestBuy).

A usb hub is inexpensive and comes in handy for a passthrough and a charger. Plug it into the wall to run it.

Voltage and amps need to be watched when you buy USB power sources. No more than 5.5v and at least 1.0amp (more is ok for amperage).

 

[Mo JJC]

I have been using a passthrough for months at work on the computer usb. I couldn't find the A drive all of a sudden. I rebooted still no A drive. turned it off for the night next day no A drive, so I aked IT to look at it. This is what they found.
"Entered on 10/22/2009 at 14:26:01 CDT (GMT-0500) by xxxxxx:
Replaced floppy drive and connecting cable--no luck. Had spare machine, replaced, swapped hard drives---still no luck. Came to find that a USB-attached dictating device (i think that's what it is, it's a small black pen looking device with a button on it) was causing the drive to not map correctly on boot. After unplugging this device and booting the computer, A:\ drive maps and works correctly. Sent user an email noting the findings."

I sent him an appology email, I caused him a lot of work for my vapor fix. Well now I know what to tell people it is if I don't feel like explaining an e-cig.

it works ok if the computer is booted up before I plug in the passthough.

 

[tribalmasters]

That is the most weird fault I have heard of! I'm guessing it was something like a Janty KISSbox, maybe its got super mass storage capabilities built in to allow dripping instructional PDFs and pictures of PVs! That'll take out the floppy disk drive!!

 

[Deschain]

I bought a wall socket adaptor and USB extension lead for mine, I didn't really fancy plugging it into my Lappy...cost me an extra couple of quid, but the piece of mind is well worth it IMO


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[jerrydon10]

Well, I hope you are enjoying your dictating device......

 

[Archer74]

LOL! another sign of "You Vape Too Much When..."

 

[Mo JJC]

That is the most weird fault I have heard of! I'm guessing it was something like a Janty KISSbox, maybe its got super mass storage capabilities built in to allow dripping instructional PDFs and pictures of PVs! That'll take out the floppy disk drive!!

nope its just the 510 passthrough that has the battery that everyone sells. didn't cause problems untill recently. I have a another at home I'll have to swap them and see if its just this one.
Yeah Jerry I am enjoying my dictating device, it has been a big joke and the usual play on words and archer I think you are right about vaping too much

 

[jj2]

I was leery of pluging in a $6.00 atty to a $300 computer tower so when I made a mod that runs off a wall wart. I love it and my computer is safe.

 

[Hookaddict]

just got a pass through 2 days ago but I DIY'ed an old plugin cell phone charger to usb cord before getting it and just use that which works like a charm. I need my usb's on my PC and didnt want to fork out for a hub.

 

[whistlrr]

I hare a USB hub that for some reason was pretty useless as an actual computer hub (any and all usb things plugged into it when it was plugged into the computer jerked and stuttered and worked badly intermittently) but I kept it and put it in a corner in the closet

then later I saw here were some people were using newer USB hubs -- but not actually plugged into the computer, just plugged into the wall to give the hub power -- to then run their e-cig passthroughs on it (since a USB e-cig passthrough doesnnt' seem to need a computer just power) and it turns out mine is an older model of the same brand I saw mentioned here, mine is also a "Belkin" brand

so I'm using a hub to safely run my passthrough(s) -- I could have four passthroughs going on it at once if I really wanted, and safely not doing it on my computer.

I really don't do a lot of plugging/unplugging of the passthrough either. Unless you have too many USB things and not enough ports to run them all at once, I don't really understand why, even when hooked to the computer, a person would do a lot of plugging and unplugging of their USB passthroughs. When I decide to use my e-cig on a battery I just unscrew it from the passthrough, screw the batter on, and leave the passthrough plugged in so I can just screw back into it.

when I was first doing this directly on the computer with my 401's passthrough I just left it plugged in all the time too whether the 401 was hooked into it or not.

my only other USB things are my mouse and a keyboard so I have a port or two to spare