Uses for diodes

TEC's? What's they?

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Julian Barnes
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** Half witted, autistic pigs like you are dime a dozen.

Vermin on two legs.

FOAD.

.... Phil

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Phil Allison

Thermo-Electric-Coolers.. made with diodes... well alternating slabs of n and p semi-conductor... close enough to a diode in my book.

George H.

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George Herold

No. He is dead. But he was twice-married.

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jfeng

No. Forget them, since they don't exist.

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Michael A. Terrell

You forgot 'Stabistor' diodes.

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Michael A. Terrell

We almost forgot one:

grounding protector (for corrosion problems on metal hulls when docked and on shore-supplied power)

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whit3rd

I assume he meant *varicap* diodes (used for tuning RF circuits).

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Cursitor Doom

The ones with the big black knobs on top?

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John Larkin

I never claimed to include all possible uses.

But a stabistor is covered under "Voltage reference."

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John Larkin

How does that work?

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John Larkin

Is it *really* a voltage reference, though?

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Cursitor Doom

Sacrificial anode I would imagine.

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Cursitor Doom

I never heard of a stabistor,

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Sorta 60 mV/ decade of current... Isn't that like a regular diode? (Diode connected transistor?)

George H.

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George Herold

Instead of grounding the boat (hull, fittings) straight to the third-prong of the power from the dock, that hull-ground gets connected to earth-ground through two or three antiparalleled diodes. This allows the hull to keep its anodic protection (slightly negative voltage with respect to the water) even though the local ground stake is in soil with good conductance to the wet.

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whit3rd

More important, is that the forward voltage versus currrent and temperature is tightly specified; the intent is to model the forward voltage of a (usually power) transistor Vbe, so as to bias its base.

If you diode-check a diode, and it's 0.65V at 1 mA, or 0.75V at 1 mA, it's probably good. The BAS17 stabistor, at 25 C, would be out-of-tolerance (too low at 0.65V, and too high at 0.75V).

Stabistors gotta match the particular transistors, so that kind of design in an audio amp means you can't always repair with an 'equivalent' transistor when the original burns up. The clue that your dead amp uses a stabistor, is the little diode attached to the big heatsink.

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whit3rd

yes of course..

jamie

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M Philbrook

obvious John I made a mistake,,. we all do that from time to time..

After 10 hour days, just about everyday, your mind gets a little mixed up.

Varicap

Jamie

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M Philbrook

It does remind us of trigistor/diac diodes, like the ones used in dimmers. They are really PNPN structures, but they have 2 leads so people call them diodes.

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John Larkin

Nobody seems to have mentioned the ever-popular tunnel diode! Back in the '60s-'70s they were the heart of ridiculously-simple FM transmitters. I believe Tektronix used them for fast rise-time calibrators, until they went the way of the unijunction transistor. (Also wildly popular for a while.)

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