[Boatanchors] Diode color coding

[Glenn Little WB4UIV]

Diodes could be marked as you suggest. Some diodes have color bands for in 
house numbers that are not standard numbers. If your diode looks like a 
1N295 and tests like a 1N295, that is probably what it is. A 1N34 would be 
banded as black, orange, yellow.

See <http://www.crystalradio.net/cal/diodeid.shtml> for one diode color 
coding scheme.

Here is a document done by a military contractor to aid their maintenance 
people in the identification of a number of parts, a good reference 
<http://www.link.com/pdfs/lms11-12.pdf>



73
Glenn
WB4UIV

  At 06:58 AM 03/04/06, Yong Surk Lee/HL1FB wrote:
>Hello;
>  I have a bunch of glass diodes with 3 bands of colors. For example if 
> the colors are red-white-green, then is it 1N295? Could someone answer 
> this? What will be the coding for 1N34?
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