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Topic: Short Circuit

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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant

Severe overloads or short circuits may require an additional inspection to insure that there hasn't been any damage that would prevent the device from operating as intended.
Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper

LazyPhrase short-circuits the phrase-matching logic, thereby issuing phrase searches at the same speed as boolean searches.
I think we have fixed the problem of stepper modules blowing up from short-circuits with John having scrounged some fuses and and fitting them in series with each module.
Adam Findley,
Professional Motivator

But addiction short-circuits metabolism by replacing food with addictive substances, hunger with euphoria, and health with craving and sickness.
Rob Verdann,
Afterdark Removalist

To prevent short-circuits, never allow any metal objects to touch the power input or output jacks of the battery.
Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur

Outputs are short circuit and overload protected and limit if the maximum aggregate current of all outputs averaged over 5 ms exceeds 0.
All the electronic circuits we have developed would not be sufficient if we did not have transducers capable of generating very short pulses while having broad bandwidths as receivers.
The external control unit also usually carries out the essential function of checking for short circuits and open circuits in the wiring and sensor.
Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman

The capacitors act as short circuits to higher frequencies and as open circuits to lower frequencies.
Improper routing and incorrect pinouts which can result in electrical short circuits and possible damage to the motherboard.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

They started Cymer in 1986 with a vision that the short wavelength of light from deep ultraviolet eximer lasers could be used in photolithography systems to image much smaller circuits onto semiconductors.
These short pulses are also used to study other kinds of fast dynamics, such as the carrier dynamics in semiconductors, which, for example, can be used to improve and better understand fast electronic circuits.
 
 
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