<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433771040214_232603" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433771040214_232923">> How about "how to read a datasheet?"</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433771040214_232603" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;" class=""><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433771040214_232603" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433771040214_232955">I gotcha covered.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433771040214_232603" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433771040214_232603" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Mantra - Data Sheets Lie</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433771040214_232603" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433771040214_232603" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;">1. Never use maximum ratings</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433771040214_232603" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433771040214_232967">2. Always degrade stated performance for your application</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433771040214_232603" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433771040214_232971">3. Graphs are a rough starting point</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433771040214_232603" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433771040214_232972">4. The Physical Drawings are about the only accurate item</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433771040214_232603" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433771040214_232603" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433771040214_233011">I am not bashing the manufacturers, but you should know that much of the parts we buy are on the low quality scale of manufacturing. The high volume customers get the high quality parts. This is not true in all cases, but a general good rule. Do you think that material returned for marginal preformance by a manufacturer that finds the problems right away in testing actually gets tossed? Not a chance. Secondary Market here we come. </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433771040214_232603" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433771040214_232603" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433771040214_233546">IMHO from a person that personally rejected many marginal parts for sub-par performance.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433771040214_232603" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433771040214_232603" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433771040214_233585">John Vaughters</span></div></div></body></html>