19 Mar
2007
19 Mar
'07
12:58 a.m.
Mr Ian Primus wrote:
It's actually a little blue cylinder (made of
glass),
that has a black band on one end. Should have
mentioned that before - it looks kinda like a
germanium diode, but in the schematic they seem to
have it doing rectifier duty. I've got tons of
1N400x's, so I suppose I could try that, it looks like
it should work, given the circuit. Did they make glass
rectifiers at one point? (non tube, rectifiers, that
is...)
Sounds like you have the problem covered but just to answer your question, I
have seen 1N400x rectifiers in that form (glass, painted blue with black
printing) on occasion in older equipment.
(BTW/FWIW: Most of the rest of the 1N4xxx range is zener diodes, all the way
from 1/4W to 100W Pd.)