6 Dec
1998
6 Dec
'98
1:04 a.m.
CLASSICCMP(a)trailing-edge.com wrote:
Some people have all the luck -- I've never seen (or heard) a
noise-emitting diode. Lots of smoke-emitting diodes and
light-emitting resistors in the past, however. And of course the
occasional glop-emitting capacitor.
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Ward Griffiths <mailto:gram@cnct.com> <http://www.cnct.com/home/gram/>
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the disks and he gave me one, a Maxtor. I had it
on a pc, laying
on top of a table and one day it went "BLAM!" like someone set
off a firecracker, and the pc shut down. Turned power off/on and it
came right back like nothing had happened! Turned out to be
<a reversed biased
diode across the power lines let got - nothing
important.
Ah - you got one of those special NED's (Noise Emitting Diodes),
I see.