Can you use a USB extension cable with SignBlazer?

[BigTonyOfDC 1]

Hey everyone,

 

I have about a 12 foot USB cable connected from my computer to my US Cutter MH741, and it works like a charm. I needed a longer cable to be able to move the cutter to its own, permanent location, so I bought a 10 foot usb extension cable. Now, when I plug that in, and the cutter into that, the computer doesn't recognize the cutter.

 

Does anyone know if there is anything I can do to use the extension cable? Thanks.

[BigTonyOfDC 1]

Did more searching and figured it out... total length of both cables is too long, need to use a powered USB Hub or an active repeater cable. Luckily, I have a powered USB hub, plugged it in there and it works!

[Primal Decals 621]

I did the same thing with my titan 2 lol . i run a 10 foot usb over my door jamb down to a usb powered 4 port hub i got from best buy, and then extended it  to my laptop and it works like a charm as well..

[dcbevins 340]

I ran a 50 foot, (15m http://amzn.to/1ShMwMC,)  usb repeater cable connected to a powered 10 port usb hub, down through the floor into the basement, then back up through the floor into another room, connected on that end to another powered 7 port hub.  So it can be done.  I have three printers and a memory card adapter on the end.

One thing I have ran into with Windows is each hub or repeating cable in the chain adds to a limit.  When this limit is reached Windows will complain about too many root hubs or something like that and it won't go any further.  

[darcshadow 1,626]

Another option for long USB runs, there is a device that will convert USB to a cat-5/cat-6 cable and allow you to run nearly 200', then convert back from cat-5/cat-6 to standard USB. And if you need to go even further, you can get one that converts to fiber and run nearly 1500'.