... or four $20 power transistors to protect a 10 cent fuse like on the DEC VR-14 display. Tom
On Wed, 19 Apr 2023, 6:16 am Fred Cisin via cctalk, <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 2023/04/18 9:40 a.m., Tony Duell wrote: > > The blown out resistor likely has "blown out" for a reason. > > The replacement will probably suffer the same faith unless you find the > > root cause. > > Isn't there usually a larger, more critical component, such as a > proprietary microprocessor, to blow out to protect the resistor? > >
