[sdiy] Euro Synth Spec

[Ingo Debus]

> Am 22.10.2017 um 15:17 schrieb Tom Wiltshire <tom at electricdruid.net>:
> 
>> Surely instead of series diodes you'd just have reversed diodes to
>> ground to trip the protection on the PSU, and not have weird random
>> voltage drops across the diodes?
> 
> However you like, Gordon. Series vs parallel diodes for polarity protection is another flamewar topic on some Stompbox sites I frequent,

Relying on the overcurrent protection of an unknown power supply probably isn’t a good idea. The modern switchers have that hiccup mode, i.e. they deliver short but hefty current pulses into a short. I’ve seen pulses of 8 amperes from a wall wart with output shorted.

Ingo