[Lowfer] Question about parallel diodes

Andy - KU4XR ku4xr at yahoo.com
Sun Jun 6 00:48:50 EDT 2010


Thanks for any replies: I have just recently come to understand that
a diode can be, or make noise in a circuit. Frankly, I had never
considered that before, until Charlie - W5COV began discussing it
with me on power supply topics. It finally dawned on me that a 
diode " clips " the voltage peaks of a sine wave, this inherently
creates noise in the process by distortion of the signal voltage.
OK, my question: In theory, or real world practice, would putting
2 diodes in parallel help in any way to lower the noise it might
generate, OR ::: would it in fact double the noise generation.
I'm not approaching this concerned about current handeling, I'm
specifically curious about the diode noise. And to clarify; the 
diodes will be anode to anode / cathode to cathode, not anti - 
parallel.
Looking forward to the education; 73 all :::  



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