> All you have to do is read the datasheet and multiply a few numbers to calculate worst-case power.
True story: When I was in college the lab mate I had reversed unknowingly reversed power and ground on a chip on a breadboard. I turned off the circuit and reached for the chip and got a blister on my finger.
Maximum power is infinite in that case (well not infinite, but pretty damn high!) I don't recall seeing a data sheet on power consumption when power and ground is reversed...
No offense, but this comes across as "This was the way I was forced to learn it, and dang it everyone else should do the same." But my experience says, I wouldn't have got a blister on my finger if I had that.
True story: When I was in college the lab mate I had reversed unknowingly reversed power and ground on a chip on a breadboard. I turned off the circuit and reached for the chip and got a blister on my finger.
Maximum power is infinite in that case (well not infinite, but pretty damn high!) I don't recall seeing a data sheet on power consumption when power and ground is reversed...
No offense, but this comes across as "This was the way I was forced to learn it, and dang it everyone else should do the same." But my experience says, I wouldn't have got a blister on my finger if I had that.