Re: Series or Parallel???

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Original poster: "Jan Florian Wagner by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jwagner-at-cc.hut.fi>


> In the diagram of the link below, you can either use a microwave oven 
> diode or 12 1N4007 diodes.  Can someone tell me if you use 12 1N4007's, do 
> you use these in series or parallel?
>     http://hot-streamer-dot-com/greg/motpic.htm

Series, because each can take 1000V, and you want to assemble them to make
a "single" high voltage diode for 10kV or so. Paralleling diodes (for
equal current sharing) is no trivial task i.e. you'll seldom see
paralleled diodes - so for the future, other projects, you could safely
assume diodes are meant to be in series if the text doesn't say otherwise. :o)

cheers,
 - Jan
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