When it rolled off the first time, my dog got it, thought it was a new toy
for her.
Thanks for the warning, Brent!

--Bob


At 12:58 PM 8/15/2003 +1200, you wrote:
>On 14 Aug 2003 at 17:37, Bob Axtell wrote:
>
> > Wow! This new ICD2 is the ugliest piece of test equipment I've ever
> > seen.
>
>Yeah, and doesn't it roll off your desk all the time? Just a comment,
>a friend of mine blew up his ICD2 within the first week of getting
>it.
>
>Apparently the power up sequence is very important. If the target
>system is powered before the ICD2 then the buffer chip in the ICD2
>can blow. Symptom is message "target not present". Tricky to replace
>(SSOP package). According to the vendor he isn't the first to do
>this.
>
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