[sdiy] Off the rails

[Ken Stone]

No surprise here either. I've had that happend to me on a number of
occasions with my SH5 for example. As long as no current is being forced
into things backwards, things are usually fine.

As for Harry's comment on reversing the power, my boss told me to do that to
an expensive prototype we had received from a company that refused to listen
to me about reverse poer connections. They said "spend money on a decent
polarised canon plug". I said "bloody road workers will be using this thing.
They will doll all sorts of things to it". 

It was so much fun watching som uch equipment go up in smoke (literally). I
rang the bloke in question after doing so, and he asekd "Do you know what
you've done???". Yes, I knew. I'd just blown up the only examples of some
chips that were in the country. Damn fool listened after that.

>(I'm not amazed that loss of one supply was survivable...)
>
>H^) harry
>
>Richard Wentk wrote:
>
>> How much hardware do you know that will survive with one power rail missing?
>>
>> Due to a severe absence of clue I powered up the laser head I'm modding
>> with the -15V line replaced with an open circuit.

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