At 07:09 PM 5/12/2005, Jinx wrote:
> > >+ve tip. You can guess what happened. Sure, ultimately his fault
> > >but for the sake of a 1c diode........
> >
> > So I should burden my product design, for a few million devices,
> > to prevent someone from having an accident when they plug in my
> > power pack to a different device that it wasn't designed for?
>
>No, I was alluding to what you said here -
>
>"On pretty much anything I've designed, the wall wart will be as
>simple as possible, and the smarts will be in the product"
>
>If the product had a 1c blocking diode, not the wall wart

Ah.. My designs will either survive, or work on wrong polarity DC or AC.

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