Lpc2000

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "rtstofer" <rstofer@...>
To: <lpc2000@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 8:02 PM
Subject: [lpc2000] Re: LED & Button connection


> --- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, newmanrf@... wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hummel,
>>
>>     These guys are pulling your leg. That means they are teasing you for
>> not knowing any better.
>
> Not at all!  I wouldn't do that...
>
> The question re: shorting the output was VERY specific and implied the
> knowledge that such a thing was NOT a good idea.
>
> I answered the question directly from the datasheet - YES, you can do
> it "for a short period of time".  But I did go to the trouble to look
> it up instead of blowing it off.  Mostly because Leon had said it was
> possible and, therefore, he had read something I had missed and I
> wanted to know what it was.  Seems I am always playing catch-up!
>
> I also pointed out that I wouldn't personally do it, even if I could
> control the time.

I did check the data sheet myself before my somewhat tongue in cheek 
response. The OP did look a bit like trolling to me.

Leon 

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