I've got a project that I may end up using in a car, so being that the alternator can give some rather nasty spikes, what have others done to protect the microcontroller and associated circuits from damage? Zeners? MOV's? Transorbs? RL circuit? Isolated DC/DC module?
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Protection from automotive spikes
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