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What is the power plug for?

April 26, 2017PLUG power

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What is the power plug for?

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The power plug can support the USB hub in the rare case full USB power is needed on the hub ports. The power that can be drawn from a single USB port is limited. As the Miniguru connects through a single cable to the host system, everything attached to this cable is limited to the power of the single USB port on the host. Which is the keyboard, the built-in hub and everything connected to the keyboard’s USB ports. This means that the USB ports on the keyboard under no circumstances can provide the full USB spec power to those ports. If you need full USB power on the keyboard’s ports you need a power adapter to supply the additional amps. This is a rare case and not considered standard operation. For standard operation no additional power supply is necessary.