Paia Theremax

[JWBarlow at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/17/2001 10:35:19 AM, jbrookes at bluebear.freeserve.co.uk 
writes:

>1. Does anyone know how critical the use of 1N34A germanium diodes in the
>circuit is? The diodes are in the ring (de)modulator for each of the high
>frequency oscillators, used to determine the frequency difference between
>the pairs of oscillators. Could I substitute silicon diodes of some sort
>e.g. 1N4148?


I broke one of these during installation. I tried replacing it with a 1N4148 
(or similar) and....nothing! I called Scott (PAiA's tech guru) who told me 
the diode must be germanium for the circuit to work right. I replaced the 
4148 and...nothing! (but it wasn't due to the diodes -- it took a bit of time 
to get that Theremax working). Don't know about the other questions.

John Barlow