Thank you for the reply. **I have solved the issue** (e.g., the unit works now), and it is weirder t
Thank you for the reply. I have solved the issue (e.g., the unit works now), and it is weirder than I thought. Here the full solution (in the hopes that it will one day help somebody with a similar issue) - tldr at the bottom:
There was nothing wrong with the unit!
Stuff I tried before calling it a day and went to sleep (was already 1 am when I posted here on discord):
*I connected the unit directly to a USB Port of my computer (instead of connecting it to a powered USB Hub)
*Dug up a barrel jack adapter kit and connected the PSU of my old gaming laptop to the unit
None of these things helped.
This morning, when I turned on the ceiling lights in my office (where my rig is) it triggered the main residual-current circuit breaker e.g., power in my house was out.
The culprit was an LED ceiling lamp that kicked the bucket somewhen yesterday (when I took the plastic cover off the lamp, the smell of dead electronics greeted me).
So now I had a suspicion: The previous owner probably ran the outlet I connected the Unit to through the ceiling lamp that kicked the bucket.
I connected the PSU of the unit to a different outlet that was confirmed not connected through the ceiling lamp and it worked.
So some key observations:
*When I checked the voltage of the PSU with a multi-meter, I did that in the workshop (next to the office) because that is where the multi-meter was.
*I had my phone charger connected to said outlet before I connected the Rhino to it, and it did charge my phone. So before the ceiling lamp died, there was still a tiny bit of voltage coming through. However, I was already wondering the past few days why my phone charges so slowly (blamed the old battery for it and didn’t bother to investigate further).
So, and now I am off to buy a new ceiling lamp.
TLDR: It wasn’t the Rhino that wasn’t working, it was a faulty outlet
There was nothing wrong with the unit!
Stuff I tried before calling it a day and went to sleep (was already 1 am when I posted here on discord):
*I connected the unit directly to a USB Port of my computer (instead of connecting it to a powered USB Hub)
*Dug up a barrel jack adapter kit and connected the PSU of my old gaming laptop to the unit
None of these things helped.
This morning, when I turned on the ceiling lights in my office (where my rig is) it triggered the main residual-current circuit breaker e.g., power in my house was out.
The culprit was an LED ceiling lamp that kicked the bucket somewhen yesterday (when I took the plastic cover off the lamp, the smell of dead electronics greeted me).
So now I had a suspicion: The previous owner probably ran the outlet I connected the Unit to through the ceiling lamp that kicked the bucket.
I connected the PSU of the unit to a different outlet that was confirmed not connected through the ceiling lamp and it worked.
So some key observations:
*When I checked the voltage of the PSU with a multi-meter, I did that in the workshop (next to the office) because that is where the multi-meter was.
*I had my phone charger connected to said outlet before I connected the Rhino to it, and it did charge my phone. So before the ceiling lamp died, there was still a tiny bit of voltage coming through. However, I was already wondering the past few days why my phone charges so slowly (blamed the old battery for it and didn’t bother to investigate further).
So, and now I am off to buy a new ceiling lamp.
TLDR: It wasn’t the Rhino that wasn’t working, it was a faulty outlet
