[ot][spam][crazy] The Trials of Controlling a Programmer
Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many
gmkarl at gmail.com
Mon Mar 28 07:34:03 PDT 2022
The diode D1 and the power supply are in the upper left corner of page
4 of that schematic. It appears to connect +5V to GND.
Looking up diode polarity, it looks like that diode is reverse
polarised. I vaguely recall that diodes have some use when placed
backward.
Usually one thinks of a diode as only allowing current in the forward
direction, and preventing it in the backward.
If my diode broke, maybe it would be acting as a short, producing the
smoke from current rushing through it to ground.
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