What's the Advantage of THIS?

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ELECTRONERD

Joined May 26, 2009
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Can someone explain the advantage of having diodes configured in parallel? I couldn't think of anything except splitting the current.

Thanks!
 

millwood

Joined Dec 31, 1969
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sharing current is probably the biggest reason, though you need to take care of balancing the load.

it could also be for redundancy.
 

steinar96

Joined Apr 18, 2009
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yeah, sharing current is most likely the reason. It does have it's drawbacks though such as 1 diode becoming faster forward biased and taking all the current on itself momenterally enough to go poof.
 

russ_hensel

Joined Jan 11, 2009
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Perhaps they are in parallel, but not connected with the same polarity. Think of a use for that ( hint there is at least one, I do not promise that it is great ). <= thinking regular signal diode. And could the diode be an LED, a zeener or a tunnel diode, or a.....
 
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