opinions on HIFLI - Diode based phasing ?

[Ken Stone]

>Yep, germanium.
>
>But I wouldn't say that it does not work with silicon, since the principle 
>of variing the dynamic resistance is the same as in the phaser!
>There are silicon diodes with an almost as round voltage/current plot as 
>germanium diodes.
>I didn't know this till I measured it in my electronics course here at 
>uni-bonn. The edge is not that sharp as one usually assumes.

There is a voltage drop difference however, with silicon at around 0.6v and
germanium at 0.2v, though I do have some germanium that measure 0.1v drop.

>There seems to be more interest in how I did that trem, than in that phaser ;-)

Info on either is interesting :)

Ken
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