ToolGuyFred
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Uncommon, yes. Unknown? Far from it. I come across diodes in control circuits every couple of years. There are a variety of standard industrial diode solutions. There are "double-deck" terminals with the diode connected between the upper and lower circuit and there are terminal rail mounted modules with multiple diodes. Most large city electrical wholesalers have something of this ilk, smaller outlets can usually get them within a few days. I have seen these useful little components both from Entrelec and Weidmuller.rsdoran said:The diodes are just out of the norm for most plants, good idea, but just uncommon is why I prefer using what is avaiable.
If you are building with what you have in the factory engineering store then its obviously a different story. In the UK with 24VDC being the norm for control circuits perhaps we have a different product spectrum available to us, too.