Tom says:
>Are people claiming one diode goes to threshold and then the others start
>being forced to threshold as that single diode avalanches? Is that the
>mechanism that causes voltages to be "shared"?
That's how I'm reading the argument, Tom.
I repeat: if the data sheet doesn't say 'controlled avalanche device', don't
rely on it being so.
73
Peter G3RZP
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