At 12:20 AM 8/9/01 -0500, Dale Botkin wrote:
>Not anything PIC related other than I just finishd a PIC project, so had
>room on the bench to do this...  but I just fixed my dual-band V/UHF
>mobile radio that's been nonfunctional for a year or so.  An internal
>protection diode between + and - gave its life and in the process welded
>itself into a dead short.  Now to figure out how to mount this old beast
>in my car...  why can't I find a DIN size ham rig, I wonder?  I'd give up
>the CD player to mount a good radio in the dash.
>
>Well, like I said, completely off-topic but it's late, I'm a little punchy
>and thought I'd share, as my kids say.

They usually go that way.
It may have been a zener as well, which blows the fuse on reversal, or
overvolt.

Good job, no more QRT. :)

--
Dave's Engineering Page: http://www.dvanhorn.org

I would have a link to http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?KC6ETE-9 here
in my signature line, but due to the inability of sysadmins at TELOCITY to
differentiate a signature line from the text of an email, I am forbidden to
have it.

--
http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList
mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu