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No.

No, no, no.

A USB data-line isolator does not block data flow. Its entire purpose is to alow data to be communicated across a galvanically-isolated gap. It uses magnetic (transformer) or optical isolators to do that.

It blocks POWER flow, while passing data. Look up the ADUM3160 datasheet.




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