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Checker Takes the Guesswork out of Diode Identification
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Harman, Charles – Tech Directions, 2011
At technical colleges and secondary-level tech schools, students enrolled in basic electronics labs who have learned about diodes that do rectification are used to seeing power diodes like the 1N4001. When the students are introduced to low-power zener diodes and signal diodes, component identification gets more complex. If the small zeners are…
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