Dave Massey writes "But these are
beefy diodes and can tolerate quite a bit of avalanche as long as the rise
time
of the spike is sufficiently slow to allow adequate current spreading."
The last thing we want on this list is people taking things out of context,
or going on about things they don't understand (perish that thought)
but in this case I may have stumbled onto something important. It is clear
that if Paul were to put some of these beefy diodes under his car every
night they would catch the avalanche of naughty volts. Perhaps the
spike could be used during it's descent time after rising
to pick up any volts that the diodes missed. The methodology
of replacing them in the battery has been well covered
already.
David Brister
1967 TR4A (so far avalanche free.)
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