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your twisting the words here.dave didn say to kick you off the forum. infact you started about that.

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AH, it's good to be king! However, why would I say something and not want people to know what I meant? That makes no sense. OK, what ever. I have better things to do then play with you. It's obvious we don't like each other. I'm cool with that. Have a good day old friend. See ya in the next thread.

Thank You guys so much for your help.

As it turned out, I had a flaky USB Hub. That was causing the problems all along. It was very tricky because it appeared to be working and did it's "doogle-loogle-loogle!" and the light came on just like it was working. But, it did not work.

sincerely, Mel :-)

@Richard R, Good Bless You Brother.

howmany cables are in the usb hub?

I'm very late to this meeting, but I noticed something mentioned about a solenoid. I wondered if you had a reverse biased (flyback) diode across the coil of sufficient size and if it was still good? Lack of a diode will burn out electronic components. Even if there is one installed, it's a good idea to check it and make sure it isn't burned out (opened) and, therefore, doing no good. Also, lack of one or an opened one will cause connectors and switches to eventually go bad. That applies to connectors or switches supplying power to the solenoid. I point that out since you said you have a flaky USB connector and USB connectors are used for connecting power as well as signals. It's possible it went bad due to arcing caused by the coil.

Nice catch WB! I've burnt out a few chips and transistors on circuit boards because of this very thing.