The Dunce in the Corner brayed:
Andre Jute wrote:

Yo, Andy, the trickiest consideration is actually where your caps are
and how they're discharged and how fast, so you don't have big joule
lurking on exposed pins

A silicon diode will fix that.

Graham

Of course it will, Poopie. And a designer who doesn't have his mind in
gear, or who doesn't know he is supposed to put his mind in gear, will
of course put a silicon diode on every line, coming and going, up and
down, and round the mulberry bush. But Andy isn't one of those
inelegant clowns, which is why I mentioned it.

If that's okay with you, of course.

Andre Jute
Our legislators managed to criminalize fox-hunting and smoking; when
they will get off their collective fat arse and criminalize negative
feedback? It is clearly consumed only by undesirables.