0070 Lab Tidy USB to RS232

Pete takes apart and fits a USB-RS232 Hub while rorganising his lab. Just a small device, but handy so as usual Pete just shares what he is doing. Not a full teardown nor a comprrehensive review - just a look at how it works for him.
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[@mrnixie]

I have the same 7-port hub (with the slightly pointless switches?) as you show, here. It (reliably) crashes my system! Don't know why. So it's gone in the "stick it on ebay sometime" pile.

[@MakeOrRepair]

Pointless buttones - and little lights - I think "marketing" must have demanded something to make it stand out! I have not so far noticed it causing any problems but it has only been connected for about an hour while recording the next video. I have another smaller hub that crashes my PC in the office, but works fine on my surface pro. I was also trying to sort out a problem with a friends surface laptop and we were plugging in various USB devices into 3 PCs, some behaved in one, not the other... makes little sense!