In most cases connect two schottky in series will be too much, each schottky
has at least 0.15V drop, that add up together 0.3V, with a silver oxide
(1.55V) the voltage will be 1.25V max.
C.H.Ling
-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne Shumaker <shumaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, May 15, 1999 9:04 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] modification for silver oxide battery
>At 01:31 AM 5/15/99 -0400, Tim wrote:
>
>>Neil.... Since I have not seen any Germanium devices in SO packages and a
>>silicon device has too large a voltage drop for this application, I would
>>guess it is a schottky diode or most likely a dual pair of schottky
diodes.
>>With a DVM or multimeter you can work out the correct connection and, if
it
>>is a dual schottky you have two options: You can use one of the diodes or
you
>>can connect them in parallel to get a slightly lower forward voltage drop.
>
>the diodes may also be connected in series:
>
>o--|>|--o--|>|--o
>1 2 3
>
>and if they are schottky diodes, they may have less voltagae drop than
>germanium, in which case you may want to connect two in series, connect
>to terminals 1 and 3, unless of course they are common cathode or
>common anode. Without markings and checking with a meter, it's hard to
>tell.
>
>Wayne
>
>
>
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