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Attempt one (cont'd)
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I then welded each wire to the appropriate terminal (as I thought, and this is the plot twist!), according to Googled images of USB connectors, that indicated the sequence of wires as Ground/Data+/Data-/VCC (+5V). In all diagrams Google spit back on me, that sequence was represented by black/green/gray/red.
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