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to limit the voltage or regulate the same.
It is designed to operate while dissipating higher power than average types of diodes can.
A: Diodes peaks current can exceed the forward steady sate current by a big factor for a short time without destroying itself. It will destroy itself if the power dissipation is exceeded. The answer to your question is the peak voltage has absolutely nothing to do with a 12 volts power supply or any other voltage power supply it has to do with the diode itself
A: it requires a source of power only if it has to perform any usage
It should be marked, either on the diode or on the box it came in. If you can't find the mark, then you have to measure it yourself. Take the zener diode, a battery or DC power supply, and a resistor. Wire them all in series, with the NEG (cathode) end of the diode closer to the POSitive side of the battery or power supply. Connect your voltmeter across the diode, and slowlyincrease the power supply output voltage while watching the meter. You'll see the voltage across the diode increase slowly, tracking the power supply, until you reach the Zener voltage. At that point, the voltage across the diode won't increase any more; it'll just stay there at its 'reverse breakdown' voltage, which is the Zener voltage. (If the voltage across the diode goes to around a volt and won't go any higher, the polarity is wrong. Reverse either the diode or else the power supply.) You probably want a wild guess at what the value of the resistor should be. That's difficult to specify if I don't know the power rating of the Zener diode you're testing. I'm going to make the following suggestion completely in the blind: Select the resistor to limit the series current to 30 mA even if you have to crank the power supply up to 50 volts. R = 50/.03 = 1.5 to 2 K-ohms, rated for a couple of watts.
There must be a break in the power supply elsewhere in the circuit. I suggest a blown fuse The only diode that generates electricity is a solar cell
A specific amount of current is allowed to flow through a diode. If the current passing through the diode exceeds this specific value, the diode gets heated and is likely to be damaged. Therefore, in the biasing circuit of a resistance which limits the current passing through the diode within its specific value is called Forward biased diode. ANSWER: A forward bias diode is just a diode that it is conducting in the forward direction. Positive to anode and negative to cathode
120v/12v 30amp power supply comes to mind.
it can simply be called a "power supply" or a PSU (power supply unit)
Basically the semi-conductor junctions are a larger surface area and heat sinks are part of the design to dissipate heat.
Bridge diodes are generally used in a bridge rectifier to convert AC into DC.
The purpose of a zener diode connected at the output of a common supply is to stabilize the output voltage in case a load is connected to it.