# On/Off Shim and powered USB Hub

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**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [January 2, 2018, 7:15am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/on-off-shim-and-powered-usb-hub/6784 "2018-01-02T07:15:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 2, 2018, 11:01am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/on-off-shim-and-powered-usb-hub/6784/5 "2018-01-02T11:01:19Z")

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D’oh! I totally missed the “no data lines, power only” bit! Glad you had one on hand to test.

Good luck with the cable hacking, they’re usually colour-coded pretty obviously so it should be plain sailing.

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