IN34 germaniums: polarity

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How is th e polarity of the IN34 diodes , is the green stripe the (+)?
thanks, I'm working of debugging my KLONED and having problems.

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You can check it with DMM in diode position :wink: , but yeah, the stripe is the cathode mark... :)

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duh,,, why didn't i think of that before posting....

got the kloned work, about an hour ago... very nice pedal

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Post by Greg »

Also, whenever you're using 2 for clipping like in the Klon.. it doesn't matter which way they go as long as they are opposite one another.
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really? that explains why I have seen pictures of others builds that looked like they were backwards. Interesting. THanks again.

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