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Re: [AVR-Chat] Re: ATMega16 I/O port protection diodes

2010-06-17 by Zack Widup

Electronics engineers who are also geophysicists know about it!
:-)

Zack

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:20 AM, anickol <anickol@yahoo.com> wrote:

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> > Depending on where, in the world, this is being installed, it could
> > last a long time as you propose, or it could be toast by this time
> > next year.
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> This is the true statement, precisely describing the situation.
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> > It took
> > several years of sleuthing to figure out that near-by lightning strikes
> > resulted in a current sheet through the top several feet of the earth.
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> In fact, large voltage difference could appear even when there are no
> lightnings at all. Geophysists know about this, electronics engineers does
> not - this is a problem.
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