On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, Alan B. Pearce wrote:

>>Unless you guarantee a minimum load it will
>>be 'chaotic' <g> in operation.
>
>I understand that. My reckoning is that the minimum load will be a 16F877(A)
>running at 3.6MHz, and miscellaneous 74HC logic, along with a MAX202, an
>FTDI FT232B and maybe a power LED, so I figured a minimum load should not be
>too much trouble.

I usually ensure 5 to 10% of full load for 78S40. Sometimes I have to use
a resistor across the output to achieve this. The problems occur only in
RFI/radioation, not in ripple and output voltage.

Peter

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