Am 13.08.2014 um 00:19 schrieb Tony Duell:
I beleive, strictly, the German diode is an OY3, not a
0Y3. Old
European semiconductors used the smae letters as the vlave code. The
'O' (not zero) for the ehater voltage meant semicondcutor device. A is
a signal diode (so OA81, etc), C is a triode -> transsitor (so OC71
germanium transsitor) and Y is a power diode/rectifier. Actually,
those letters -- almost -- carry on to today. The first letter was
reassigned ot be A for germanium and B for silicon. So an AA119 is a
germanium signal diode. C is still trasnistor (think of AC128, a
germanium transistor and BC108, a silicon transistor). D, originally
power triode is sometimes used for power transsitor (AD161, BD131,
etc) .F, origianlyl a pentode, then became an RF transistor (which
makes sense, both are high frequency amplfiiers). So AF117, BF259, etc.
This is the naming scheme of Pro Electron. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro_Electron
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Holger