Help in identifying a diode.

[perro5151]

Hello everybody,

I can't find a picture, but of course I can offer a vague and probably useless description, haha. Anyways, I bought a kit from a site that will remain nameless (just as a precaution) and they included a diode for reverse polarity protection. This diode they included was very small (size of a schottky) and it was blue... Anyone know what it is? Where I could find/buy them? I'm so curious, and I've tried searching with no luck...

Thank you in advance!!!

[juanro]

Does it have any labeling? You say it's for polarity protection... it's in series or in parallel with +V? Do you have a multimeter with diode checking function?

Juanro

[perro5151]

Well, I had thought that the diode had been misplaced, but I just found it. It's a BAT46 schottky diode. Anything special about this diode (higher forward voltage, different clipping tonality, etc)? Or is it just another schottky?

Thanks.