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Cool stuff. Did you test the isolation? Say, by powering it from 5VDC that's riding on 120VAC or something.
by ramshorns 6y ago
Cool stuff. Did you test the isolation? Say, by powering it from 5VDC that's riding on 120VAC or something.
- kens 6y agoI didn't test the isolation. I wanted to avoid accidentally destroying the chip, since that would mess up the analysis. I was tempted to hook the chip up to the 40 kV spark generator we had sitting around, but that would probably be a bad idea.
- ableal 6y agoProbably the package would need to be over 1cm tall to withstand that. (I think that the electric power guys get "30kV/cm" etched into their brains - the field strength at which sparks start to fly between conductors separated by air.)