steviejr92
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TBH i dont even remember why i wrote them all down, i never used them for any analytical purposes except for now! Guess it was a good choice!Wow excellent. I'll tell you what though. I am not measuring 100 d9e's
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Diode forward voltages
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Chuck D. Bones
Circuit Wizard
Here's some traces
Chuck D. Bones
Circuit Wizard
Here's a few more
SillyOctpuss
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Lol @Chuck D. Bones walks in and nonchalantly says "Here's some traces" before dropping a motherload.
Dude I wasted my night and just should have asked
Dude I wasted my night and just should have asked
Chuck D. Bones
Circuit Wizard
It's never a waste. Mo' data! Mo' data! Mo' data!
MichaelW
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What component tester do you have? Should we trust the Peak DCA numbers as the most valid?
SillyOctpuss
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No they're all valid numbers, they're just at different points on each diodes curve.
That's why FV figures don't really mean anything unless you know what current it was tested at. Also that it's just one point on a curve.
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Big Monk
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Keep in mind too that sometimes we use our ears in tandem with a measurement to create an aural landmark.
Wha?!?!?!
When I was brewing beer, we had a number of generally accepted calculations to estimating IBU, or the bitterness units, of that specific beer.
The issue was that those calculations depended on a number of process factors such as the time they were added (were you accurate about the time in the boil you dropped them in?), the α acid concept of the specific hop (which is affected by when they were packaged and storage) and the specific gravity of the beer when they were dropped in (did you measure gravity?).
The point was that the only way to measure IBU was in a lab. Yet you could determine bitterness level by taste and use the estimations to tweak the bitterness up or down in subsequent batches. That way the estimations WERE useful.
In this case, if I’ve used my TC1 to determine Vf for a specific diode and then plugged it into say, a Big Muff, and then tweak that value based on what I hear, tje TC1 can be used as an estimating tool based on the Vf if the that originally measured diode.
An aural landmark
(Aural Landmark is a registered trademark of Big Monk Electronic Device Co. and may not be used or reproduced without explicit permission from Derek Scott.
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Wha?!?!?!
When I was brewing beer, we had a number of generally accepted calculations to estimating IBU, or the bitterness units, of that specific beer.
The issue was that those calculations depended on a number of process factors such as the time they were added (were you accurate about the time in the boil you dropped them in?), the α acid concept of the specific hop (which is affected by when they were packaged and storage) and the specific gravity of the beer when they were dropped in (did you measure gravity?).
The point was that the only way to measure IBU was in a lab. Yet you could determine bitterness level by taste and use the estimations to tweak the bitterness up or down in subsequent batches. That way the estimations WERE useful.
In this case, if I’ve used my TC1 to determine Vf for a specific diode and then plugged it into say, a Big Muff, and then tweak that value based on what I hear, tje TC1 can be used as an estimating tool based on the Vf if the that originally measured diode.
An aural landmark
(Aural Landmark is a registered trademark of Big Monk Electronic Device Co. and may not be used or reproduced without explicit permission from Derek Scott.
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