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Why does nobody talk about how cheap USB borescopes can fry your laptop port?

I plugged a $12 borescope into my work laptop to check a hidden corrosion spot on a Cessna wing spar and it shorted out the USB port completely, cost me $150 for a motherboard repair and a whole afternoon of downtime.
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sean_walker45
Yeah, I started using a cheap powered USB hub after that happened to me.
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andrew854
andrew8541mo ago
@sean_walker45, did the hub actually protect your laptop or just its own ports?
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