[sdiy] Dual 914 diode in a SOT-23 package?

Neil Johnson neil.johnson97 at ntlworld.com
Mon Mar 12 21:13:13 CET 2012


Hi Justin,

Justin Owen wrote:
> The diodes will be used as per this schematic: http://www.sdiy.org/ 
> juz/euro_input_detail_02.pdf
>
> - which came out of the long I/O protection thread we had last year.
>
> Happy for anyone to critique it again...

I don't remember seeing that particular combination.  Anyway, I would  
remove D10 and D11, and D8 and D9 must be low-leakage types,  
definitely not 1N914.  Otherwise you'll likely get horrible non- 
linear behaviour.  See section 3.2.1 of IC Op-Amp Cookbook for examples.

Cheers,
Neil
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