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Re: [OM] modification for silver oxide battery

Subject: Re: [OM] modification for silver oxide battery
From: "Trevor J. Noble" <p15982@xxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 21:52:41 +0100
Neil,
If you're serious about understanding basic electronics then try
http://www.teleport.com/~jughead/electronics_school.htm
regards
Trevor J. Noble
----- Original Message -----
From: Neil Bell <neil.bell@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 15 May 1999 19:50
Subject: Re: [OM] modification for silver oxide battery


> >Sounds like a diode in a surface mount. Sometimes they come with two
> >diodes in a package, with a common cathode, common anode, etc.......
>
> >it sounds like they sent you a surface mount component. Probably
> >what is called an SOT23 package or similar. (SOT stands for small
> >outline transistor)........
>
> Ok -
>
> I got hold of a multimeter.
>
> I'll call the two contacts on one side of the diode "contact A" and
> "contact B" and the single contact on the other side "contact X" :-
>
> I got a reading for resistance which was off the scale (i.e. the
> needle on the meter didn't move at all - presumably effectively
> no flow of current?) for all permutations except where the negative
> probe of the meter was connected to contact A  and the positive
> probe to contact X. The resistance in this case seemed to be about 1K
> Ohm, if I'm reading the scale correctly. Does this mean that I should
> connect the negative terminal of the OM1 battery compartment to
> contact A and the wire currently attached to this terminal to contact
> X? Is contact B effectively a dummy?
>
> Please excuse my almost complete ignorance of electronics - a
> deficiency I may try to rectify sometime if anyone can recommend a
> good book!!?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Neil.
>
>
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