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05-27-2016, 06:30 PM

old_coot88 old_coot88 is offline

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Bridging a selenium with a Si diode does not mitigate the effect of reverse leakage in the selenium. Heating due to reverse leakage increasing is part of the failure mode (in addition to heating due to increased forward resistance). Always take the selenium out of circuit.

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