I purchased several of these on sale and the directions are nothing special. Can I chain several together for extra capacity using the female port?
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The female port seems to be for charging the "battery" instead of the solar panel.
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I can't imagine why you would not be able to. I'm doing three. You can connect one bank to the most important (starter for example) battery and the other 5 parallel on the other bank. Or you can split it up evenly. Many options but it seems real quick for me.
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Yes this is a Y connector with all female end points. As for the second portion of your question I do not understand. You may have to reword your question or try to explain better what you are looking for.
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The answer is yes. You need to purchase a connector to continue the chain or another type to "V" off the strip.Each company sells accessories to do these additions.
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As others have said, the SATA & Power cabling is required for each drive. The bigger question as I understand it, is that each drive will need it's own ports on the motherboard and if you have 4-drive bays like I do, you will still need to take up two of them with these. So, besides having a bracket in which to install the smaller drives, I'm not sure what the real utility is of this product; whether you stack the two drive as in this bracket or install them each separately, you still have to use 2 drive bays.
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All ports are female. Doesn't come with converters but the three cables that you'll need would be enough.
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You can either order male ends online and wire then in or just cut both female connectors off and wire them together. I've done it both ways
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You can but not together. The port that the devices attach to will only accept one device at a time.
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Sorry, can't help you on that one. I am using them in an analog to digital security camera modification and I don't know the female port size myself. They just fit perfectly for me. Good Luck.
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i have the power plugged in with 7 drives. I think the reason my drives didnt work is because there's not enough power on the bus for drives. I know you can run one drive without a problem, but don't know about 2. I would assume you want power just so you don't loose the drive in the middle of writing as happened to me before without this hub.
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You could daisy chain these if you have some electrical experience. You'd need to purchase 3 sets to make it work.
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This is something that could be done, but I would not recommended doing so. Each port is designed to support a maximum of 0.55 Amps draw and a total maximum draw for the entire output of 10 amps. If I needed the extra draw for that one camera I would connect it to its own power adapter, recommending a minimum 2A or 3A adapter. The lower the draw you place on a power adapter, the longer it will live. An ideal draw is 50% or less of rated capacity, 75% considered a maximum. Anything more than this you are stressing the components and will have a lower life expectancy, both the power supply and the connected devices. If things were manufactured the way they used to be (dating myself), everything had a large over design factor so the rating was actually 50% of the theoretical maximum. These days too many products no longer have this over design built in, unless you are talking about military or other specialized use products, at substantially higher cost. It is all about "cheap" while giving the illusion of large output. Do what you want, but please consider what has been stated here. Test your camera to determine its actual current draw, you might find it is substantially lower than rated, or not. Also remember however that draw will vary depending upon duty cycle and environmental temperature. Worth finding out exactly what your equipment uses in all scenarios. I am using this power box for a maximum of ten cameras (each rated at 0.5A) so as to not overload or stress any components. My two cents worth.
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Yes, you can do that. Some people just buy a second small one in the future and combine the two with a special connector. That way works too but sometimes it can be a problem. I would go with the bigger.
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I don't see a problem with doing that. You could also just get 15 ports if you want to feed another 8 port unit from this one.
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Check the manual that came with it. If using more than 1, you need first one set as "Master" and all others as "Slave". Start cabling with OUT on master to IN on first slave and daisy chain in this manner. DO put a label on the Master so you always know which one to start with.
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I had the same problem. You need to buy a female-female connector.That will do the trick four you.It is normally 2$
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Not if they are daisy chained with the supplied connectors. The only way I can see to do that would be to connect a separate power supply to each module or wire them to one supply with inline switches.