I admit the following list of questions and answers is not even close to being comprehensive, but I hope it at least reveals how an engineer's thought process should proceed under such circumstances. All effort has been made to clean up most of the typos/ grammar of the original forum, and also to improve the language somewhat, for better readability, although for the questions and blog entries, the original typography (no italics, no subscripts, and u is used for ) has been used, to match the discussion board context. Any possible revelation of identities has been deliberately suppressed, even though this is, after all, a completely public online forum that anyone can access (and add to). Yes, I did once add my two cents worth on the forum directly (but with little success). Also, the part numbers I mention in this chapter should not be considered in any way real they are there only for the purposes of this technical analysis and discussion. Further, any errors in the analysis or logic are entirely mine. In any case, you should always thoroughly double-check what I or anyone else is saying, before inferring anything whatsoever.

Question 1

April 2000 I am using a pair of 2675's on a board. One to provide 5V for Analog/Digital. The other to provide 5V for a lamp, which blinks at 1Hz and draws 250mA. When the lamp is off the 2675 is in discontinuous mode. When the lamp turns on, the power...