[time-nuts] Distribution amp - Use a video amp unit ?

Peter Gottlieb nerd at verizon.net
Mon Mar 26 12:49:33 UTC 2012


   Well, *I* care...
   (Damn, can't even keep a straight face hidden behind email)
   Ok, well at least it's an amusing argument.  Well, partially.
   So, here's something I've wondered for a while:  how are glass cased
   diodes made?  Wouldn't the temperatures needed to form the glass and
   seal it to the leads destroy the silicon junction being put inside?
   Peter


   On 03/26/12, Mike S<mikes at flatsurface.com> wrote:

   On 3/25/2012 9:54 PM, gary wrote:
   > MMBD914 !=1n914.
   > 1n914BWTm i.e. using a suffix, is something I haven't seen before,
   but
   > technically
   > 1N914BWT != 1n914. That is, in the strict sense, the 1n914 has to be
   a
   > diode in that glass package.
   As long as we're being pedantic, you're wrong. What you say is only
   true
   if it is a JEDEC 1n914 that you're talking about. "1n914" cannot be
   trademarked or copyrighted. A manufacturer is perfectly free to make a
   device in a non-glass package and call it a 1n914, which means it _is_
   a
   1n914, as long as they stay away from JEDEC.
   Then again, following your lead in being impractically, completely,
   worthlessly pedantic, it's a JEDEC 1N914, not a 1n914. In the strict
   sense, the latter cannot exist under JEDEC.
   "No one cares" is probably an understatement.
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