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DIY Stompboxes => Building your own stompbox => Topic started by: jimbob on May 02, 2004, 05:58:15 PM

Title: mill 2 question-
Post by: jimbob on May 02, 2004, 05:58:15 PM
On the diagram Keen shows 2 diodes..1 high leakage and the second low. What would be considered low..Germanium?
Title: mill 2 question-
Post by: R.G. on May 02, 2004, 07:58:46 PM
No. Use the collector-base junction of a common NPN silicon transistor.

Germanium is quite high leakage, about 1000 times that of silicon.
Title: mill 2 question-
Post by: jimbob on May 02, 2004, 11:14:12 PM
thanks!