On Sunday 11 September 2005 12:47 pm, Wouter van Ooijen scribbled:
> > I was just looking at that and I'm not a fan of shorting out
> > the PS.  Surely
> > there must be a cleaner way to do this, by intercepting the
> > Vdd line to the
> > target?
>
> When your target is 7805/78L05 powered I see no problem.
>
> Intercepting the power an switching it off (and shorting any remaining
> charge!) might be cleaner, but is not as easy to add to a target
> circuit.
>
> Wouter van Ooijen

I'm thinking out-of-circuit programming, where if Vdd is supplied by the 
programmer, it should be simple to cut off/block.

Cheers,
-Neil.


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