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- From: ssave@ole.cdac.com (The Devil Reincarnate)
- Subject: Re: Positive and negative side of diode
- Message-ID: <1992Oct9.203734.372@ole.cdac.com>
- Organization: CDAC, WA
- References: <1b2pfuINN2rn@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 20:37:34 GMT
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- In article <1b2pfuINN2rn@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ah335@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Richard Banks) writes:
- >Please excuse my ignorance but I'm new at this.
- >I'm putting together an electronic circuit and would like to know
- >which side is positive and which is negative. I guessed that the side
- >which the ring on it is negative. Is that right? Please respond as
- >quickly as possible and when I get a reply I'll cancel this article
- >thanks.
-
- This is not ignorance. The last time I got into trouble when the
- ring was not the negative. I was building a power supply bridge.
- There is no standard! Use a multimeter, use a battery with an led.
- Or look it up in the data-book.
-
- -S
- ssave@ole.cdac.com
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