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Re: Digital Sidecar problem

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Originally Posted by eagle33199 View Post
We triple checked the wiring on the switch with the multimeter - we definitely are NOT shorting gnd and +5V - otherwise it wouldn't start to magically work when we plugged it into a different port.
As mentioned above, if there is a metal shaving shorting the SIG and GND pins on that one port then when you close the switch it would short 5v and GND.
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