>>Someone said:
>>> What if it were a Zerohm(tm) "resistor"?
>>
>>Someone else replied:
>>> I think I saw one of those a while ago sitting in a bath of liquid helium.
>>> How do you connect it to the PIC?
>>
>>A third person raised the stakes
>>I acquired a box of zero ohm resistors from an engineering lab clearance at
>>my previous job.  I'd seen some before with just a single black band, but
>>these ones are marked black-black-black-silver.  Unfortunately they seem to
>>be defective; they don't come anywhere close to meeting the specified
>>tolerance.
>
>And I chipped in:
>We used to use them as current limiting resisters for our Darkness Emitting
>Arsenide Diodes.  D.E.A.D. diodes are like LEDs, except that they emit
>darkness when you put a voltage across them.
>
>
And the story continued...

I believe you can get great big panels of silicon DED's They even use them
to power the parking meters in germany.

Keith.
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