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Does Putting Diodes in Parallel Lower Their Voltage Drop?

Part 3: Diode Duet.

Plugin' Up Two Diodes Together.

Series:

First, we'll examine how putting just two diodes in series affects their overall behavior.

Since this article is not about series hookups, I won't spend too much time on it, unless if you email me about it.

• Forward Breakover Voltage is doubled.

• Max Forward Voltage is doubled (I think.)

• Max Reverse Voltage is doubled.

• Forward Voltage Drop is doubled.

Parallel:

• Max Forward Current is doubled (I think.)

• Reverse Current Leakage is doubled.

• Forward Voltage Drop.... well, that's what were' here to find out.

Below are my test results for measuring the Vdrop of one (for reference), two, then four diodes in parallel:

1N914 table:

This article is about using cheap diodes, so I did a test with three diodes in addition to the regular 1, 2, and 4-diode testing.

Number of diodes:	Vdrop (in volts)
1	0.27
2	0.22
3	0.19
4	0.18

1N4003 table:

1N5819 (Schottky) table:

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