Is This Diode Made by Amperex?

Mar 14, 2005 12 Replies

Is this diode made by Amperex? See ABSE for picture. It's a 1N616, and it says Holland on it, but nothing else. The packet it came in was handwritten Amperex. Can I assume that it was really made by Amperex?



I downloaded the datasheel from datasheetarchive.com, and while it was d/ling it said over 2 MB. The d/l quit at 660kB, but when I tried opening it with Acrobat reader it said it was corrupt. Maybe someone else can do better?


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You'll be glad you did! Just when you thought you had all this figured out, the gov't changed it:
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Same thing here. That PDF is schlect.

The file loads fine for us locally. Maybe give it another go and let me know if there are further issues with our site.

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Copied it as a jpeg also

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Hopefully the correct one?

Regards DatasheetArchive.com Admin

Or Philips, in reality: Amperex is one of their (formerly innumerable) brand-names in various countries, from the days when they seldom marked components 'Philips' except in the Netherlands

It was long thought that competitor end-user-product manufacturers wouldn't be too happy to fill their equipment with components marked with the name of a rival ...

Peter Duck

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Amperex?

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someone

What is schlect? I typed define schlect into Google and I get dozens of hits with that word as a person's last name(!)

me

Thanks. The .JPG is okay. But I tried to d/l the .PDF and it got further than the first time, 1450k. I again got the damaged error message when acrobat reader opened it.

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:29:53 -0800, "Watson A.Name - \"Watt Sun, the Dark Remover\"" put finger to keyboard and composed:

The correct spelling is "schlecht".

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for an explanation. I believe the word means the same in Yiddish.

Knowing this, I wonder how this company manages to win contracts:

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"Schlecht Construction, Inc. is a General Contractor for commercial and industrial projects in Oregon and Washington."

- Franc Zabkar

Please remove one 's' from my address when replying by email.

And according to my equivalents data book the 1N616 equates to the Philips AA113,4...etc. I have a Philips (Miniwatt in Australia) short form data book from 1964 and this only mentions the AA119 which superseded the AA113,4...etc. The AA series used a white spot or band to indicate the cathode and this style was referred to as case style

  1. They also had a case style 24 which is exactly the same as the
1N616 in question which uses a red end on the glass body to indicate cathode. It is likely that Philips just badged their AA113 as 1N616 and marked it to conform to case style 24 for the USA market.

The AA119 is listed as a Ge point contact diode suitable for detector use (similar to 1N60 et al). Other data;

Vd (cont) 30V, Vd(max) 45V Id (cont) 35mA, Id (max) 100mA Tamb (max) 60C At 25C Vd=0.88V for Id=1.0mA Rev leakage Id @ Vd(30V)=150uA max

Rgds,

Ross H

1N616, and

Amperex?

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Thanks for the info. I got the .JPG from datasheetarchive, and that spec said the case was the small glass case like the later and more common Ge diodes came in, like the 1N270, etc. I guess the same thing happened to this as happened to the 1N34, everyone had their own idea of what it was supposed to be.

I once accidently broke open one of those thin glass cases, and it was filled with silicone gel, got the goop all over everything. Yuck. The glass was too flimsy.

You're probably correct. I speak the language much better than I spell it, and I speak it poorly. :-)

"Schlecht" is one of those delicious words which sound pretty much like what they mean.

spell it, and

like what

If this is a delicious word, does that mean I can eat the diode?

Offhand, I'd say you're not doing too good with English, either.. ;-)

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 19:03:26 GMT, Michael put finger to keyboard and composed:

That's onomatopoeia.

- Franc Zabkar

Please remove one 's' from my address when replying by email.

I had that, once, but penicillin cured it :-)

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