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Subject: Re: [motm] Power Supply Crowbar

From: Scott Juskiw <scott@...>
Date: 2005-11-23

>It's not the steady-state load, it's charging up all the caps on the
>boards. The
>current in the first 100ms is probably 1A or so.
>
>No real easy solution.....power sequencing is the best.

An overkill solution might be some kind of relay circuit with
pseudo-random delay times (using different resistor values to charge
up the caps) on each of the MTA connectors. Like on a Yammy TX816
when power is applied and then a second later you hear 8 relays
click, but not all at the same time.