Clickbait title, sorry (but only the 'free-energy' lunatics will fall for it).
After connecting a 74HCT138 CMOS decoder chip the wrong way round, I was surprised to see that it had apparently suffered no damage. But is that the full story?
EEVblog #831 - Power A Micro With No Power Pin!
https://youtu.be/2yFh7Vv0Paw
After connecting a 74HCT138 CMOS decoder chip the wrong way round, I was surprised to see that it had apparently suffered no damage. But is that the full story?
EEVblog #831 - Power A Micro With No Power Pin!
https://youtu.be/2yFh7Vv0Paw
Would be interresting to see how much power you could save with tricks like that. I know its an old video but could you try to find that out?
I have an 8-bit shift register that runs completely off of the serial and clock inputs without connections to vcc/ground. It has confused me for awhile, but maybe you have explained it somewhat!
You are awesome, Julian.
It has begun. The chips are repairing themselves.
Julian, If you like tantalum soo much, why not get a kit of tantalum!
Free Energy: SUN – but only if you go out more
This is realy foolproof chip, you can fry it and connect it wrong and it still works 😀
Of course you shouldn't put that chip into service, but it did make an interesting and educational demo. Thanks. Well done. Don't forget to throw that chip away … It gave it's life for the higher cause of education. RIP
missleading title… very dissapointing
Thumbs up for the content and thumbs up for the smoke, though I won't call it magic smoke, we need more smoke for it to be officially called magic smoke. Cheerio
Great way to learn from your mistakes–here–don't just pull it and throw it away or you will miss a LOT of internal understand of critters!