Who would have thought while in school that one day they'd be watching electronics classes for entertainment...

You showed in only 7:30 minutes what I took 2 months in Electronics class to learn. Congratulations!

Love this lesson, remember when I first learned all this back in the late 70's, it was so amazing to me. It's magic!

Great video, keep up the good work. I really appreciate the detail you put into your projects and lessons.

Great work being done on this channel. Been a real help in my studies. Thank you for posting.

Thanks so much for your detailed explanation and actual circuit examples. This video does help me a lot.

Never actually seen what happens when the "speed limit" on a diode has been reached. Well now I have. Great and clear explanations as usual. Thanks

Your explanations are so clear. Love it.

Love the neat printing and circuit drawings! Very neat!

Great Scott is a fitting name. Great videos, thank you!

Very informative practical demonstration of these two diode types

Oh man I would give anything to have your brains. Watching your videos is like new world for me. I have to start learning some basic electronics. Keep up the good work.

All of your vids are fantastic and help so much.

So, the channel is called "great Scott!" That begs the question... When are you going to build a Flux Capacitor Dr. Brown?

Thanks, Scott! This explains some of the problems I'm having with supplying power to my project, using a MD100 DC-DC converter.

Perfect tutorial I gained a lot. Many thanks

Very useful knowledge about zener and schottky diode...thanx garte scott....!

Good video, you keep improving the way you explain progressively, before I had to pause the video and let everything soak in, but now it is just much clearer to understand!

Love your electronic basics videos. Thanks

Good video. I'm glad you are making these

Wahnsinn, Danke Herr Prof.

Thank you! Very clear and detailed explanation.

Sooo helpful. Thanks again scott!

Just what I needed.

Good video, clearly presented - thanks!

Your teachers must have loved you. Thank you for sharing your vast intimate knowledge.

Great Video Scott!!!

Great vid as always!

Hey GreatScott, greetings from Italy! I love ur video, and I would like to suggest a series of videos about Boolean circuits.

Very good intro for new comers. Keep up the good job.

Good practical explanation... Thanks for the video

These Electronics basics videos are really helping me out.Hope u will make the next one about SCR's. Keep them coming and best of Luck

very informative. I like your 101 series

Awesome. Keep up the good work

Good presentation!

Great Scott!

I love your video, I am a young enthusias​ so they always help me

Very interesting. Making more videos like that. Thanks guy.

Nice video with full of knowledge thank you sir

great work.

This is very good. Thank you!

Great video.

My life is complete now, great information with resitor and zener diode, i didnt know that and i blowed up a circuit :)

*Scott* you are *Great*

This is really helpful for my oral exam on tuesday.

best channel for engineering

Aww...man this would have really helped me last semester, anyways great video!

Very good explain! Would be nice a video about TVS/ESD diodes, and the differences about the unidirectional/bidirectional type.

6:39 min is the voltage gain to source voltage (not gain to drain). Your tutorials are very usefull. Thanks a lot :)

Well done

Very informative

THANKS FOR A GREAT VIDEO TUTORIAL!!!! WOW!!!!

Great explaination :)

Awesome!

thank you, very good video

Luv it!

Oh those 68 Ohm resistors of 1980s... i remember those!

useful usage of Schottky diodes (although normal diodes can work there too): Using a shift register to poll multiple buttons, you need diodes to prevent the shift register from creating a short to ground when multiple buttons are pressed.

Really nice! :)

Hey GreatScott! Just wanted to say I love your videos, and that there very informing and fun to watch. I was wondering if you'll ever do a video on Flash Memory and how it works. I watched a video that explains the basics, and wow its amazing. but the video wasn't that good. so I thought i'd ask you. because your videos are really high quality and your very good at explaining Details whilst making it easy to understand. it would be awesome if you did and im sure your fans would think so to

Thanks a Lot! Always wondered what the difference is :) 7:15 Not so energetic, but clearly not the happiest of diodes ^^

than for good n easy explanation

vry informative dude

Wonderful explanation. It's a pleasure to watch your videos. I do not know what you are doing in life but you should be a teacher. Would it be possible to explain in video the control of the liquid crystal segments? Supply voltage, consumption current as well as some integrated control circuits without going through arduino please. Congratulations, thank you from Belgium.

Again thank you

nice, you even add magic smoke in the end

Great video as always thank you. Have you thought about explaining SMD Diode packages I have trouble identifying what ones are what and often think that they are a different package.

Talk about the tunnel diode. I'm old enough to remember it use to be in every oscilloscope located in the trigger circuit. The main problem with them was the short life span.

Please create a playlist of Electronics Basics series. And mention in the description.

BEAUTIFUL VIDEO, EXPLAIN THE BEST. MANY TANKS. IN BRASIL RIO DE JANEIRO LUIZ

Thank you

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nice vid

Nice, finally I understand why there are so many types of diodes... BRB spending even more money on components because I don't have any schottky diodes

I watch your videos mostly to see how you write or draw :))

Hello, I really like Great Scott, I just noticed that the direction of the voltage Vf, (which shown at 1:35 minutes in the video), is reversed in the diode design. Sincere friendships.

I would watch a whole video of Scott just drawing circuit diagrams.

Great Scott you are really great,it must be that Albert Einstein was from your family 😊 Super Video Bruder,sehr cool,ich schaue deine Videos mit voll Genuß 😀

danke scott für die gute erklärung,dank dir kenn ich mich besser aus :')

Great video, as always but the voltage drop arrow you've drawn at 0:17 has to be the other way around (assuming you take voltage drops to be positive ;)). Keep up the good work!

GIMMIE DA SCOPE ! ... wait wrong chanel...

Great video!!! I have a question. What is the thumb rule to select schottky diode as flyback diode for 12V dc motor with peak current of 4A?

greet vedio as all your vedios thanks a lot.

This helped me with my YT channel content of modifying a black and decker light. The COB lights I wanted to use kept pushing resistance back to the voltage regulator board and shutting it off. Using 1 schottky diode per COB strip on the + side made everything work perfectly. Now the negative terminals get warm (50C). But the GSM6232 variable voltage regulator doesnt even get 45C. Thinking of using 3 more on the negative side. Thanks! (DruCanDoIt) is my future channel. Building content. Have 3 videos edited and ready to go so far.

Great video! Would you also do a video about a Kapazitätsdiode (i think in english it is translated like capacitydiode)? Thanks!

thanks

So, I have a 33.6v #eSk8 li-ion battery for my electric longboard. I have a 120A latching relay to turn it on and off but the coil requiress 24v. I've used a voltage regulator to get the voltage down from 33.6v to 24v to work the coil, could I have used a zener doide instead? bearing in mind the battery would always be in an 'on' state to the 'centre off' switch I'm using to feed the coil.

Thnks.

6:15 if you put one leg over the diode and the other leg under it and twist the res a little bit, you will create a better contact because the pressure is slightly higher. :D

I've never even seen that symbol used for zeners! It might be worthwhile to also show one of the more common symbols at some point. Also, it seems more likely that you're protecting from excess gate to source voltages than gate to drain. Many mosfets don't even list a gate to drain limit; which makes sense if you think about it.

great video great Scott!!.. would you know how to build a voltage regulator for a automotive alternator??? that is a subject I'm stuck on. I have heard a 12 v alternator can be converted to 24v. by building a regulator . can you answer this. or do a video?

Yet another great educational video mr. GreatScott:-) Perhaps you could make an in-depth video about the pros and cons of using schottky in battery powered Applications? For example: The lower the forward voltage drop, the higher the reverse current. Or why it's a good idea to place a diode across the pos. and neg. pins AFTER the fuse in your device. (If you reverse the polarity by mistake, the diode will act as a short circuit and blow the fuse. And it won't impose any voltage drop using this method) Perhaps you could also talk about: Gunn Diodes Shockley Diodes (not a typo) Transient Voltage Suppression Diodes Varactor Diodes (I'm not shure if i have mentioned them all) Thank you for your contribution to the tinkering community!

That magic smoke in the end ☺

If I wish to use a small panel cell to power a fan it makes noise until voltage/current from the panel match minimum requirement( in partial sun coverage), would a zener diode alone or with a cap in parallel as a buffer/battery be able to not turn on the fan till the requirements are met?

love your videos the way you explain everything is really good like i'm 14 years old and i even i can understand al your videos easy keep making videos

hi i have a motor driver which am using to drive a coil CW and CCW to create electromagnet but when the coil collabse it destroy the motor driver can you suggest what to use to protect the motor driver , the power supply for the motor driver is 27 volts 22 amps thanks iin advance

the ihk exams for electronics professions like mechatroniker for example expect you to to calculate with an Izmin which is 0.1 times the Iz you calculated for the zener diode in this video to protect it from the eventuality of over current

I think you are improving at explaining things on your videos. I could fully understand everything, unlike most of your other videos. Thank you!

I went to Electronics school in '79. And even though I moved on to Woodworking. I still like to see the new products at Digi-Key.

Hi In some logic ic outputs there is some unwanted negative short pulses after falling edge that can damage the microcontrollers inputs.. what circuit can block them can diode be used for this??