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DIY Stompboxes => Building your own stompbox => Topic started by: zener on June 05, 2004, 06:59:25 AM

Title: 1N4148 vs. 1N914
Post by: zener on June 05, 2004, 06:59:25 AM
Here in my place, whenever I ask the store clerk for 1N914, she would always give 1N4148. She would always say that the two are just the same. But I would believe you guys more than this pretty store clerk.

Also, how much difference is there between the two, if any? Which one will produce more hard clipping or distortion? Can I always have 1N4148 where a schem calls for a 1N914?

Thanks for any help
Title: 1N4148 vs. 1N914
Post by: Gilles C on June 05, 2004, 07:38:00 AM
Except for the max forward current that is higher for the 1N4148, the other specs are the same.

http://www.jameco.com/Jameco/Products/ProdDS/179215.pdf

And the circuits I tried, they gave me the same results, to my ears, and on the scope.
Title: 1N4148 vs. 1N914
Post by: Nasse on June 05, 2004, 07:52:41 AM
:D Clerks are sometimes right :D
Title: 1N4148 vs. 1N914
Post by: zener on June 05, 2004, 09:06:13 AM
Quote from: Nasse:D Clerks are sometimes right :D

Oh... :roll: I though she was just pretty :wink: .
Title: yupp
Post by: petemoore on June 05, 2004, 01:00:42 PM
Now she's "Right / Pretty"?
Title: 1N4148 vs. 1N914
Post by: cd on June 05, 2004, 04:10:44 PM
In a guitar effect, it makes no difference.  Heck, in most other circuits, it doesn't make a difference at all either if you design things well.
Title: 1N4148 vs. 1N914
Post by: Hal on June 05, 2004, 07:58:18 PM
the old archer (radio shack) packages say on them
"1n914/1n4148"

:-D
Title: 1N4148 vs. 1N914
Post by: Brian Marshall on June 06, 2004, 01:12:57 AM
and they both clip hard.
Title: 1N4148 vs. 1N914
Post by: brett on June 06, 2004, 07:47:46 PM
Actually, the 1N4148/1N914 has softer clipping than its likely substitute, the 1N4001/4004  (ie diodes around the 700mV for 1mA range).  Compared with Ge diodes, it's a hard clipper and compared with LEDs it's soft.

cheers
Title: 1N4148 vs. 1N914
Post by: niftydog on June 07, 2004, 08:18:52 PM
Quote
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QuoteClerks are sometimes right
Oh...  I though she was just pretty
Now she's "Right / Pretty"?

MARRY HER!  YOU'LL NEVER FIND ANOTHER ATTRACTIVE WOMAN WHO UNDERSTANDS YOUR HOBBY!
Title: 1N4148 vs. 1N914
Post by: zener on June 08, 2004, 01:50:08 AM
Quote from: niftydogMARRY HER!  YOU'LL NEVER FIND ANOTHER ATTRACTIVE WOMAN WHO UNDERSTANDS YOUR HOBBY!

If only she doesn't have a fiance, but I found out just yesterday that she does. :?
I also found out that all clerks there are graduates of a course in Electronics, so chances are, they know what they are talkng about. Before, I use to think that all they know is what written in the label or in the catalogue. I thought she just want to keep on selling by telling me that 1N4148 and 1N914 are the same. Shame on me. :? I can remember, when I was still a week old with this hobby, I declined to buy a 25V electrolytic when they ran out of stock of 16V's. Although she insisted that there would be no difference, customer is king (I took up business in college). She just said and smiled, "Ok, sir. Your bill is $__ for your other orders". How stupid of me :x  :?

Anyway, thanks.
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