USB 2 hub breaking USB rechargeable bike lights?

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Hello from Ottawa, Canada, all!

As an avid cyclists, I’ve been using an old USB 2.0 hub to charge my USB-rechargeable bike lights.

I’ve been doing this for a few years now, and love the fact that I can charge up to ten lights on this hub, which is far better then doing so sequentially which as you’d imagine, is far more time consuming.

However, the last time I tried charging some 6 lights; something went wrong? All six of those lights that I was charging at the time, now longer turn on?

Does anyone know of a way/procedure to perhaps reset these lights, so they work again?

[… thought I’d ask, even though I doubt there’s anyway of regaining my lights.]

More importantly, assuming these lights are garbage, can anyone explain what may have gone wrong here, in this one-time incident?

Any and all insights will be appreciated.

Thanks for considering this.

Bill Taylor

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Oh dear! Good bike lights are expensive.

Does the hub still work? And what about the USB socket or power supply it was attached to?

Try charging the lights individually again from a USB supply that you know works. If something went wrong with the hub, perhaps the lights are simply discharged to the point where they won’t turn on.

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