At 10:11 PM -0400 10/22/99, John Hermanson wrote:
> The diode is supposed to be there (it is in EVERY 2/2N). It prevents the
>circuit from blowing out if you insert the batteries backwards.
>
Well, it sure as hell looked like an amateur installation job to me! One
end of the diode was wrapped around a screw with no kind of connector -
that's extremely poor practice in my book.
Be seeing you.
Dirk Wright
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