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Jan 24, 2012 190 Replies

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I could only get to 10mA. (The most my current source will do.) So not into the ohmic region. The straight line is drawn by eye.

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Oh I forgot to add that at 10mA the diode was heating up and the forward voltage dropping, so the 725 mV number was the first thing the DMM registered... and readings went down from there.

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Various model cards show D1N4148 with Rs (bulk resistance) = 0.56 to

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Semiconductors are notoriously difficult to measure. You have to do pulse testing to keep it from moving during the measurement. ...Jim Thompson

| James E.Thompson, CTO | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | | | Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat | | E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

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Grin... Pulsing is beyond my test setup. But last time I looked at these I subtracted the adjacent numbers (112.24, 112.79 and 118.78 for the largest three,) and then atributed the difference in the last one (6mV) to the resistance. 0.6 ohms in this case.

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I'd consider whining to be high pitched and whinging moderate to low pitched so it's closer to grumbling or moaning than to whining.

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Well, then I think Ratso is whining.

John Larkin, President Highland Technology Inc www.highlandtechnology.com jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com Precision electronic instrumentation Picosecond-resolution Digital Delay and Pulse generators Custom timing and laser controllers Photonics and fiberoptic TTL data links VME analog, thermocouple, LVDT, synchro, tachometer Multichannel arbitrary waveform generators

One wonders about that. Looking through history, the more brilliant someone is, the more likely they're crazy.

-- Cheers, James Arthur

Of course. Ideas come from permeability in the barriers that segrate ideas and brain functions. Schitzophrenia comes from a more complete breakdown.

I guess attachment to reality works the same way. If you can reasonably suspend conventional concepts of what's possible and impossible, you can better explore the solution space. If you suspend all limits on the possible, you become a loonie.

Here's another interesting relationship: the more politically powerful a person is, the more likely that they are sociopaths.

John Larkin, President Highland Technology Inc www.highlandtechnology.com jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com Precision electronic instrumentation Picosecond-resolution Digital Delay and Pulse generators Custom timing and laser controllers Photonics and fiberoptic TTL data links VME analog, thermocouple, LVDT, synchro, tachometer Multichannel arbitrary waveform generators

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Not 1N4148 per se, but silicon in general. news:r1u7j79mdi2c4g5bdtpcap7f1oopccrkup@4ax.com From Motorola's 1980 silicon rectifier data manual.

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Yep. Actually, that double curve reminds me that, if you do that for IB _and_ IC of a _transistor_, you can derive all kinds of model parameters. I did that, with assistance from my son Aaron, in the early '80's writing the solution of that problem as a Pascal executable. (Damn! I thought nothing of it then, but Aaron was only

12 years old at the time! He's gone on to be in charge of all software creation and utilization for the world's largest call-center corporation... working from his farm house in San Tan Valley, AZ :-) ...Jim Thompson
| James E.Thompson, CTO | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | | | Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat | | E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

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You've done well, Jim, congratulations. :-)

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Yep. All my children have done me proud ;-) ...Jim Thompson

| James E.Thompson, CTO | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | | | Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat | | E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Profound observation.

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The more "god-fearing" a person, the greater likelihood of a sociopath.

You have that entirely backwards. Read this:

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John Larkin, President Highland Technology Inc www.highlandtechnology.com jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com Precision electronic instrumentation Picosecond-resolution Digital Delay and Pulse generators Custom timing and laser controllers Photonics and fiberoptic TTL data links VME analog, thermocouple, LVDT, synchro, tachometer Multichannel arbitrary waveform generators

NymNoNuts can't read, let alone comprehend. ...Jim Thompson

| James E.Thompson, CTO | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | | | Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat | | E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

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