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Re: Can a piezo buzzer generate damaging voltages?

Subject Re: Can a piezo buzzer generate damaging voltages?
Newsgroups comp.arch.embedded
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From Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net>
Message-ID <ronDB.6032$sb3.2660@fx33.iad> (permalink)
Date 2017-10-11 22:37 +1100

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On 11/10/17 20:08, o pere o wrote:
> On 10/10/17 02:15, John Speth wrote:
>> My team is being asked to find out why a circuit is failing for no 
>> obvious reason.  The circuit has a piezo buzzer (CEP2242 from CUI, 
>> Inc).   The buzzer is driven by a MCU driven FET that completes a 
>> circuit like this: high side power 3.3V -> buzzer -> FET -> ground 
>> (BSS123LT1 FET on the low side).
>>
>> Does anybody have any experience with the possibility of a piezo 
>> buzzer generating damaging voltage spikes when dropped?  We have no 
>> protection diodes on this part of the circuit.
>>
>> At this stage, we have no information of exactly what's failing.  We 
>> do have evidence that some failed units have been dropped.  I'm 
>> following through on a hypothetical failure path which we need to 
>> either consider further or discard.
>>
>> Thanks - JJS
>>
> 
> As John points out in his response

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Can a piezo buzzer generate damaging voltages? John Speth <johnspeth@yahoo.com> - 2017-10-09 17:15 -0700
  Re: Can a piezo buzzer generate damaging voltages? Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2017-10-10 13:55 +1100
  Re: Can a piezo buzzer generate damaging voltages? o pere o <me@somewhere.net> - 2017-10-11 11:08 +0200
    Re: Can a piezo buzzer generate damaging voltages? Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2017-10-11 22:37 +1100
      Re: Can a piezo buzzer generate damaging voltages? o pere o <me@somewhere.net> - 2017-10-16 09:56 +0200
  Re: Can a piezo buzzer generate damaging voltages? Chris <xxx.syseng.yyy@gfsys.co.uk> - 2017-10-11 23:10 +0000
    Re: Can a piezo buzzer generate damaging voltages? John Speth <johnspeth@yahoo.com> - 2017-10-11 16:46 -0700
      Re: Can a piezo buzzer generate damaging voltages? "petrus bitbyter" <petrus.bitbyter@hotmail.com> - 2017-10-12 15:32 +0200
        Re: Can a piezo buzzer generate damaging voltages? Chris <xxx.syseng.yyy@gfsys.co.uk> - 2017-10-12 14:31 +0000
        Re: Can a piezo buzzer generate damaging voltages? John Speth <johnspeth@yahoo.com> - 2017-10-12 13:48 -0700
          Re: Can a piezo buzzer generate damaging voltages? Jan Coombs <jenfhaomndgfwutc@murmic.plus.com> - 2017-10-15 18:12 +0100

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