Last night I got to thinking that I vaguely remember the GQ4x software having a couple of tests you could do, funny how I've used them for years and forget some of the features in front of me every time I use the damn thing.
I ran the test on both of them, the one I bought around 08ish, gave me plenty of grief since it wouldn't program many plcc chips that were supposedly supported, wondered why I wasted the money when the PCB3b was still working fine, I think the time saving feature sold me when I read the speille regarding it's usefulness, then inherited one of the last before they started selling the GQ4x4, from a friend I had buy all the gear from here to start playing with injection, seems it was either too hard or he lost interest, this last one gave me little to no grief, I opened them both up, internally they look identical parts wise, only difference I can see is the firmware running on them..
The early one always throws an error when using the "safely remove hardware" on XP then disconnect it, the other never does.
Running both of them on the same laptop, results below, guess that answers my question about voltage regulation on one of them..
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