Nice. One time long ago, I got snookered by a damaged prescaler in an
8-pin DIP. For recompense, I connected pins 1-4 to one side of a 120V
mains plug, and pins 5-8 to the other. Made a very satisfactory bang,
and excavated a crater out of the epoxy.
Most soothing to my irritated soul, and _that_ chip was not going to
waste any more of my time. (Pease talks about 'Widlarizing' in a
similar vein.)
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
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Dr Philip C D Hobbs
Principal Consultant
ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510
http://electrooptical.net
http://hobbs-eo.com