[sdiy] Help ID a diode
MTG
grant at musictechnologiesgroup.com
Sun May 8 03:12:22 CEST 2016
I have 2 diodes in a logic circuit that I am trying to ID. Their purpose
(my best guess) I will explain below. They are in series so I assume
they are the same. They are both the orange glass type and look like a
1N4148 or a 1N914, but the numbering is off.
The first one has a stylized "F" and the numbers "25".
The second has what looks like "T1" or maybe "TI" and then "525" as far
as I can tell.
The circuit is a 4011 logic circuit, part of the battery backup logic.
The 4011 is powered by a diode combination of 5v or the 3v coin cell,
whichever is larger. Other diodes, not these ones.
My attempt at deciphering...These diodes and 1/4 of the gate package are
intended to disable a CE* signal when 5v goes away. I will attempt ascii
draw:
|-----\
"5v"----|>|---|>|----+-----------| \
| | NAND >0----RAM_CE*
< CE ----| /
10k < |--- -/
<
|
Gnd
This is some home-brewed memory expansion (not mine) and it has issues
where some of the bytes change after a while (possibly during
power-cycling). I don't know that this is the culprit but it's pretty
odd by what I have seen around synths. I swapped out the RAM and it
still occurs.
Do you suppose these are schottky?? The number 25 or 525 means nothing
to me in diode land.
I may have to come up with some other solution, but I wanted to try
swapping these out first.
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