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rvg8tor

Joined: 06 Apr 2009
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Location: Olympia, WA

Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 2:29 pm Post subject: Diode numbers

I have an electronic supply store in my town so I went out to get the diodes that go on the battery and start relays.  I asked for the 1N5400, after looking up in a book the guy gave me an NTE-5800.  Near as I can tell from looking on-line they are the same type of diode.   Is there anything quality wiser or otherwise I should be aware of when buying these things?  They only cost .38 each, so after ring terminals and some heat shrink I might have a buck into them, not bad.

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Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 6:49 am Post subject: Diode numbers

At 05:29 PM 9/24/2009, you wrote:

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I have an electronic supply store in my town so I went out to get 

the diodes that go on the battery and start relays.  I asked for the 

1N5400, after looking up in a book the guy gave me an 

NTE-5800.  Near as I can tell from looking on-line they are the same 

type of diode.   Is there anything quality wiser or otherwise I 

should be aware of when buying these things?  They only cost .38 

each, so after ring terminals and some heat shrink I might have a 

buck into them, not bad.


	


   Of thousands of diode part numbers on the shelves,

   the vast majority of the industry's needs can be

   met by perhaps a few hundred . . . maybe less.



   The spike catcher diodes don't even wake up

   from a sound sleep when hit by the energy from

   your contactor's magnetic field collapse. I

   LIKE the 5400 series devices because they're

   MECHANICALLY friendly for installation. Much

   smaller diodes would be electrically adequate

   but these dudes (and the NTE-5800 cousins)

   are most adequate to the task.

        Bob . . .



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        ( a thing wrong, gives it a superficial )

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