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[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 25 July 2005 12:30, Kevin Diggs wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> It has the additional problem of only being able to use 1 of those
>> 40 pins for ground.  The MPI, and all the cartridges I've seen,
>> all make heavy use of the ears on both sides of the finger pattern
>> engaging into the ground clips on both ends of the socket on the
>> motherboard.
>>
>> Without that extra grounding, even a single card plugged into this
>> Y cable always resulted in a miss-fire and crash in short order
>> for me.
>
> What about fan-out and transmission line like effects (i.e. bus
>loading)? I would have thought these were much bigger problems than
> the PS?
>
>     kevin
The lack of a decent low impedance ground is far more important in the 
real world.

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