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Why did nobody tell me…?
Posted March 2, 2008
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Comments (3) Well, several melted microchips, a burnt finger, a bunch of messing about with a multimeter and a lot of googling later, I have a question…
Why did nobody tell me that you need a resistor on the base on a transistor to prevent rather large amounts of current flowing.
Oh well, I guess I’ve learned something for next time – PICs don’t like having 200mA or so pulled through their pins.
