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Re: Potential DSC Damage

it is definitely not a good idea to be dumping 12v into the sidecar. I would suggest you sink your power elsewhere, and use a transistor arrangement to connect the two pins (sig,gnd) so that there is no extraneous power on the sidecar.
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