TVS as *input* clamping?

From: Clay Cowgill <ClayC_at_diamondmm.com>
Date: Wed Jan 28 1998 - 18:09:30 EST

Dunno if anyone suggested this yet or not, but as I was staring at the
"input protection board" on a 314 deflection board in my vector monitor
during lunch...

Couldn't you just use bidirectional TVS' (at, say... 10V for "X" and
8.2V for "Y") across ground and the inputs? So if an op-amp failed and
yanked the output the +/- rail the TVS would clamp it?

Just a thought.

-Clay

Clayton N. Cowgill Engineering Manager
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