XPost: uk.d-i-y, alt.home.repair   
   From: Gothberg"@internet.co.is   
      
   On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 23:55:34 -0000, %  wrote:   
      
   > On 2018-12-20 4:15 p.m., William Gothberg wrote:   
   >> On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 22:56:19 -0000, %  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 2018-12-20 3:48 p.m., William Gothberg wrote:   
   >>>> On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 22:14:31 -0000, Rod Speed    
   >>>> wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> "William Gothberg" <"William Gothberg"@internet.co.is> wrote in message   
   >>>>> news:op.zucb6od6o5piw3@desktop-ga2mpl8.lan...   
   >>>>>> If they're not very warm then they won't mind double the current.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> Don't those diodes handle surges anyway?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Yeah, the surge rating is massive.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> I mean a 3A diode will take way more than that for a fraction of a   
   >>>>>> second.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Yep.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> It's the heat that kills them.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Not with bridges.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> So why don't they just fit what they need to instead of bigger ones?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> The bigger ones are the same price.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Its only when you got to the big ones   
   >>>>> potted in a square aluminium thing with   
   >>>>> a bolt hole in them that the price increases.   
   >>>   
   >>> that's a trimmer   
   >>   
   >> No, a trimmer is an adjustable resistor/capacitor/inductor:   
   >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimmer_(electronics)   
   >> Rod was talking about a very large diode.   
   >   
   > no its not   
      
   Then you'd better correct Wikipedia.   
      
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