I did blow a couple LEDs apart with a nice bang once upon a time when i was a lad, trimming a cirquit using a long steel screwdriver and dit not look and I put it between 230VAC and panel connector...  -That device did not need anmore trimming....
/Morgan

Olin Lathrop 17:35 2006-01-22:
>David VanHorn wrote:
>>> Or a bunch of cheap 0603 or 0402 LEDs arranged in a X-Y matrix.  The
>>> forward
>>> voltage will guarantee just about all the energy will go into the
>>> LED. Since they are diodes, the X-Y grid drive arrangement should
>>> work.  This would make for a cool flash whenever you did blow a fuse.
>>
>> Easy to make them fail shorted, harder to make them fail open.
>
>If you blast enough current thru them, like discharging a large cap, they
>pretty much have to fail open I would think.  I admit I haven't tried this.
>Hmm, I do have a roll of 0603 LEDs around here somewhere...
>
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