Talk:Reverse-biased
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The following text is from Idiot Diode, which appears to be the same thing.
Image:Idiot-diode.GIFAn Idiot Diode is a Diode that is purposly connected in reverse bias across the power terminals of a device to be protected from reverse voltage. The name Idiot Diode may sound funny but its a well suited. It protects expensive or valuable electronics from being ruined by an IDIOT hooking up the power backwards. An Idiot Diode is not a special type of diode but rather a name for a way of using a diode, they are usually silicone because si diodes tend to short out (a good thing in this case) when too much current flows through them. They are usually used in conjunction with a fuse to pevent catastropic falure.
I've made Idiot Diode a redirect page to here. If I'm wrong and this is a different thing, my apologies. Marasmusine 10:20, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] What shall we do?
The present content is not helpful. A redirect to p-n junction may be too much. How about redirecting to a new article bias (diode), where both forward and reverse bias are explained with this figure and something like this caption? Maybe one could note the similarity with one-way traffic signs.
The article bias (electrical engineering) exists, but is not too helpfull either. /Pieter Kuiper 22:33, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
- Object to new name. Bias is relevant to many pn-junction devices, not just in diodes. DMacks 01:26, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
