Re: BUSH LED2497ODVDFHD, 17PW80 V2, Dead!



Hi Tom, couldn't believe it when I read this ! Paralleling diodes, what a joke, why not a single schottky thats up to the job? as is now in the set I just fixed. I used a single 12Amp 600v simply because I had one and all ok, no need to mess with trying to thermally bond individual diodes. Its my guess that was a novice designer under the mistaken belief that putting them in parallel reduces the forward voltage, no it doen't the VF we be that of the lowest in the group which will then take the brunt of the load leading to...