Very good Just out of college many years ago and did the same to a selenium 3-phase Rectifier strip (anyone else old enough to remember those?).
Resulting smoke and horrible smell almost made the large lab uninhabitable! Very Red Face on my part! John Allen From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Martin.J Thompson Sent: 25 August 2006 02:45 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Noise on a video signal > > >>>> "McInturff Gary" <[email protected]> 17/08/2006 22:41:00 >>> >The transistion is sometimes LED to NED (Noise emitting Diode) to DeaD. >Gary I once turned an ordinary diode into a (briefly) LED, followed by an SED (smoke emitting diode), then to a DeaD (friode? Ahh yes.. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/F/friode.html) :-( Martin -- Martin Thompson CEng MIET TRW Conekt, Stratford Road, Solihull, B90 4GW. UK +44 (0)121-627-3569 : [email protected] http://www.conekt.net/ - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: [email protected] David Heald: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.6/427 - Release Date: 24/08/06 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.6/427 - Release Date: 24/08/06 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.6/428 - Release Date: 25/08/06 - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: [email protected] David Heald: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________
