Usagi Electric | Testing Thousands of G15 Germanium Diodes @UsagiElectric | Uploaded October 2024 | Updated October 2024, 15 hours ago.
I can’t fault them, they’re nearing 70 years old, and that’s a big ask from diodes that old! Still, we know for a fact that we have at least two bad diodes, and I suspect we may have dozens more. Which means, it’s time to test diodes. But when the machine has more than 3,000 diodes lurking inside of it, how do you test that many without losing your mind? Well, turns out, Bendix made a pretty awesome little tester to do just that!
Check out System Source here:
museum.syssrc.com
Come hang out with us at the LSSM on October 25th:
https://lssmuseum.square.site/product/haunted-hardware-fundraiser-ticket-patron-access/1
Check out Lloyd's Diode Tester Manual here:
github.com/Nakazoto/UEVTC/blob/main/Reference/The%20Bendix%20G15%20Diode%20Tester.pdf
If you want to support the channel please hop over to Patreon:
patreon.com/usagielectric
Also, we now have some epic shirts for sale!
my-store-11554688.creator-spring.com
Come join us on Discord!
Discord: discord.gg/p7UsfHD
Intro Music adapted from:
Artist: The Runaway Five
Title: The Shinra Shuffle
ocremix.org/remix/OCR01847
Thanks for watching!
Chapters
0:00 What does 80 million yen buy you these days?
3:54 A problem of scale
7:16 A walkthrough of the tester
12:10 Calibration (if you can call it that)
13:57 Test drive time
16:56 Time to test 3,000+ diodes
18:51 This never happens, I swear!
21:50 Surely, I didn’t make it worse, right? Right?
23:40 Legitimately took me 5 hours to hunt down the fault…
26:53 Bunny is upset there’s no more banana
I can’t fault them, they’re nearing 70 years old, and that’s a big ask from diodes that old! Still, we know for a fact that we have at least two bad diodes, and I suspect we may have dozens more. Which means, it’s time to test diodes. But when the machine has more than 3,000 diodes lurking inside of it, how do you test that many without losing your mind? Well, turns out, Bendix made a pretty awesome little tester to do just that!
Check out System Source here:
museum.syssrc.com
Come hang out with us at the LSSM on October 25th:
https://lssmuseum.square.site/product/haunted-hardware-fundraiser-ticket-patron-access/1
Check out Lloyd's Diode Tester Manual here:
github.com/Nakazoto/UEVTC/blob/main/Reference/The%20Bendix%20G15%20Diode%20Tester.pdf
If you want to support the channel please hop over to Patreon:
patreon.com/usagielectric
Also, we now have some epic shirts for sale!
my-store-11554688.creator-spring.com
Come join us on Discord!
Discord: discord.gg/p7UsfHD
Intro Music adapted from:
Artist: The Runaway Five
Title: The Shinra Shuffle
ocremix.org/remix/OCR01847
Thanks for watching!
Chapters
0:00 What does 80 million yen buy you these days?
3:54 A problem of scale
7:16 A walkthrough of the tester
12:10 Calibration (if you can call it that)
13:57 Test drive time
16:56 Time to test 3,000+ diodes
18:51 This never happens, I swear!
21:50 Surely, I didn’t make it worse, right? Right?
23:40 Legitimately took me 5 hours to hunt down the fault…
26:53 Bunny is upset there’s no more banana
