Digital Output Protection

Feb 24, 2009 24 Replies

What you really need to do is use a different connector so that it's impossible to plug +30V into an output.

Good Luck! Rich

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That's a transzorb. 30V -> poof ... phssss ... *BANG*

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could you use a larger resistor and a parallel capacitor?

sounds good, how about a polyswitch and the diodes,

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