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dl101DL101 04/20/2018 at 00:003 Comments

I got a germanium disc from ebay, and I did a quick test by and found that pointing a scalpel to it it works as a point contact diode!
It is a bit rough but it works!


I'll try obtaining something pointy and see if I can get better performance.

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Dr. Cockroach wrote 04/21/2018 at 07:48 point

That would make a neat crystal radio project :-)

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Morning.Star wrote 04/21/2018 at 04:45 point

Nice, I love raw electronics. If you havent seen http://www.sparkbangbuzz.com there's a ton of useful experiments in there. Crystals are awesome :-D

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Yann Guidon / YGDES wrote 04/20/2018 at 01:03 point

Yay ! it's a start :-)

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