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Old 02-13-2009, 11:17 AM
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Originally Posted by kb2vxa View Post
Eh, the regulator chip you chose depends on the polarity of the lightning bolt, if your collector is low it will be negative cloud positive ground, polarity reverses with altitude but I'm not keen on standing atop a skyscraper in a thunderstorm so I'll let YOU do it.
Just put it behind a full wave bridge rectifier and make the circuit input polarity independent!

Last edited by n5ims; 02-13-2009 at 11:19 AM.. Reason: Fixed typo (Give me back my full sized keyboard!!!)
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