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Does Putting Diodes in Parallel Lower Their Voltage Drop?

Part 4: Mixing n' Matching two diodes.

Now you know what happens to Vdrop when putting two (or more) of the same types of diode in parallel, but what about two different types of diodes in parallel?
I originally only wanted to see about parallel, so I'm leaving differing types in parallel up to somebody else to research, but I did use my digital multimeter on the types I had, just to see what would happen.
Below are a few tables showing my test results:

Vdrop "mixing" table:

And to refresh your memory, here's the Vdrop table again showing the individual diodes....

Vdrop "individual" table:

Here are pictures of my notebook (in my own handwriting) showing my test results when I performed the experiments:
(Click on the thumbnails to see a larger version. Both images were slightly edited to help show the text.)


Perhps next time, I'll do resistors in parallel/series...

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