Re: Making high voltage diodes (fwd)

[Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 17:52:36 +1200
From: Malcolm Watts <m.j.watts@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Making high voltage diodes (fwd)

Hi Steve,

[Steve (SRR) is the moderator of the list, typically NOT the original
poster. It just looks like I'm composing and sending all these pearls of
wisdom and questions ;-)  SRR]

On 28 Aug 2003, at 22:04, High Voltage list wrote:

> Original poster: Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxx>
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> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 14:05:48 -0700 (PDT)
> From: humanb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> Subject: Making high voltage diodes
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> For my high voltage diodes I usually just make strings
> using the 1 KV ones (and de-rate appropriately).
> Recently I noticed that Digikey?s 6 Amp 1KV Silicon and
> glass passivated diodes were cheaper then the others of
> equal specks. Just what are ?Silicon and glass
> passivated? diodes? What is meant by the word
> ?passivated??

I've always understood it to mean that the die is encased in fired
frit (glass) rather than some plastic compound.

Malcolm

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> Regards,
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> David Trimmell
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