>> You are unlikely to fry a PC supply by drawing too much current from
>> it. Reversing the current direction of an output may hurt it, but that
>> shouldn't be possible in your scheme.  You may need a minimum load on
>> the +5V output.
>
> Cool.  For now it will always have a load, which is the programmer, and
> just the two power led's on that consume around 40mA, which is
> significant enough from a 120mA supply.

No, I meant on the ***+5V*** output.  Some PC supplies shut down all
outputs when the +5V draw is below a threshold.


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