At 01:59 PM 2/10/02 -0800, rad0 wrote:
>let me give this a try - thanks


If you have a pair of output pins, you can do a bridge drive, but be careful.
You want to take both pins to the same state, before taking them to
opposite states.

00,01,11,10,00... rather than 10,01,10...

The reason is that with the second sequence, you make a capacitive voltage
doubler, and are sinking large current pulses into the protection diodes,
risking CMOS latchup.



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