12 May
2006
12 May
'06
5:10 p.m.
At 09:26 PM 5/12/2006 +0100, you wrote:
I think he should just use some LERs*. Or perhaps a SED* or two.
LER: Light-emitting resistor- ohm's law has been BROKEN.
SED: Smoke-emitting diode. See LER.
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What if I took
an older 5V CPU (say... an 80486) and wired 'er up to just
Vcc & Ground - how much power would that use? [[ I've started some google
searches & I will continue, but I was hoping others here would
have better
ideas than my lame-azz neurons & google so far ]]
1st, I assume that you won't leave any input pins "floating" - if you
do the
results are somewhat unpredictable (from no effect to more than "somewhat
glowing"!*)
* I had one dx4 overdrive chip self-destruct with one tiny (about 0.1"
square) part of
it glowing white hot ... never did find out why :-(
2nd, If unclocked the results are also difficult to predict - but the
probability is
that the consumption will be very low indeed (just as overclocking increases
power
usage).
Andy