[Asterisk-Users] Having problems with S100U

[Jason A. Pattie]

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Jason A. Pattie wrote:
| Mark Spencer wrote:
| | Remember the S100U has to generate high voltage (-48V when idle, plus
| | about 70v a/c on top of that when ringing), and it does it all with 5V.
| | It does get a little warm.  That's normal.
|
| Wow.  I hadn't thought of that.  That's gotta put a drain on a USB
| system.  Imagine if you wanted to load an entire 127 extension phone
| bank off one USB port (daisy chained USB hubs) ...  Supposedly it's
| theoretically possible to connect a maximum of 127 USB devices to a USB
| port (or something like that).

Extending this thought further: has anyone thought of putting multiple
S100U's together into an enclusure (maybe Digium?) and selling it as a
USB channel bank?  It would maybe be a cheap alternative and increase
expandability (unless USB is not stable enough).

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Jason A. Pattie
pattieja at xperienceinc.com
Xperience, Inc. (http://www.xperienceinc.com)
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