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1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 29-Oct-2018 11:05:17 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

   @jk Who would design a circuit where a shorted diode will fry a chip? I can't think of a sane circuit involving a diode that would fry an IC unless it's something ridiculous like relying on the voltage drop of a diode to power a low-voltage circuit instead of using a regulator like any sane engineer would do unless under extreme pressure to save money on components...

   1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 29-Oct-2018 11:11:26 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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      @jk I mean, it's possible that a pin on a chip can't take a certain higher voltage, say 15V, that is sometimes present on a bus, but sometimes, when that voltage is not present, needs to pull that bus up or down within its own voltage range, say 0 to 3.3V, but that would be fairly exotic, and it would be more sensible to use some kind of level converter chip for that, since whatever's on such a bus probably wants to see the higher voltage range... again, it'd have to be pretty wild...