16 Jun
2006
16 Jun
'06
2:49 p.m.
On Thursday 15 June 2006 10:35 pm, Allison wrote:
It's bipolar and also programable (fuseable links) and they do have
a tendancy to develop shorted paths where they were once "opened".
Ah, I didn't know about that last bit...
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
Any idea as to why that should fail so often?
Thermal death? It's a bi-polar part, not *MOS, and it does run hotter
than the rest of the components.