Maybe you had a ground loop problem?
On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 12:06:47PM -0700, James Brown wrote: > > It was one of those “something’s not working on my Hack. I’ll try my second > one” things. > > I admit I was doing weirdness on the poor boards. I was trying out running > USB over CAT 5 and had a USB transmitter and receiver setup with about 150 > feet of CAT 5 between. The receiver, the unit near to the remote Hack was > powered from a 5 V linear regulator (LM117 with pot and caps etc). Had the > thing working pretty well with a bandwidth of 4 Mhz when disaster occurred. > > I found that the CAT 5 receiver was also blown so I did something way wrong. > > Some fun. > > From: Chuck McManis > Sent: Tuesday, September 4, 2018 10:55 > To: j...@seti.net > Cc: Hackrf-dev > Subject: Re: [Hackrf-dev] Two Dead Hacks > > Just out of curiosity (and a desire not to step into something) do you know > how you killed the HackRFs? I've seen people who killed the input or output > RF amps because they weren't thinking about RF stages, and I've seen a couple > of reports of people killing them by using poorly regulated battery based > power supplies. > > > > On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 12:20 AM James Brown <j...@seti.net> wrote: > > I managed to kill both my Hacks. Neither one will enumerate on the USB. > Tried several machines. No Luck. > Is there a service for repair of these machines? > _______________________________________________ > HackRF-dev mailing list > HackRF-dev@greatscottgadgets.com > https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/hackrf-dev > _______________________________________________ > HackRF-dev mailing list > HackRF-dev@greatscottgadgets.com > https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/hackrf-dev _______________________________________________ HackRF-dev mailing list HackRF-dev@greatscottgadgets.com https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/hackrf-dev
