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echo: tech
to: JEAN PARROT
from: ROBERT SAYRE
date: 2002-10-26 19:14:00
subject: ATX power-on

JP>         Good morning to you Matt, how are you today ?

JP>  MM> When our power does come up, we usually get three successive 'surges'
JP>  MM> in a two minute period before it 'normalizes'.  I've lost too much
JP>  MM> stuff over the years to be in _any_ hurry to turn things back on after
JP>  MM> an outage.

JP>         Voltage spikes are deadly to solid state circuits. I have placed
JP>         mosfets across all the + & - on my boat insruments because once,
JP>         when starting the engine, the log got zapped. No mas !

 Just how do you have those transistors connected
and what do they do?

 Robert

 * SLMR 2.1a * Sorry, I missed the part after "Now listen closely".

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