Jasen Betts wrote:
On 2017-11-21, David Eather wrote:

Some usb leads for chargers only run the +5 and Gnd - so they can't be
used on PC's etc

They can (but probably should not) be used for charing

You mean 'sharing'? or 'charging'?

from PCs, but
cannot be used for data

If you meant to say 'sharing' and not 'charging' then yes, you can use this for a hard-wire data link. There are adapters for this too, I believe.