Timeline for Real maximum current for ATmega328?
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| Aug 9, 2011 at 7:20 | vote | accept | Seth Archer Brown | ||
| Aug 9, 2011 at 7:17 | comment | added | Seth Archer Brown | OK, I see now. I thought that 40 mA was the absolute maximum that a pin was able to supply. Not the current that was safe to draw from said pin. I was using the pin to switch a transistor in an h-bridge. I was trying to see how much current I needed to saturate the transistor, so I didn't use a resistor and as a result it was drawing 80mA. | |
| Aug 9, 2011 at 5:35 | history | edited | Russell McMahon♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 9, 2011 at 5:14 | history | answered | Russell McMahon♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |