Kammas E002 50PCS DO-15 2A 100V SCHOTTKY DIODE sb2100

In this video I'm going to teach you about schottky diodes. They are very similar to regular silicon diodes, but with some important differences. For starters, they have a different circuit symbol. Notice how similar they look to other diodes - make sure you don't get them confused because they behave very differently! Okay, before I talk about what is special about schottky diodes I want to remind you of some basic diode concepts. In my previous video about diodes we talked about how they only let current flow in one direction, and when current is flowing through the diode, there is a voltage drop across the diode called the forward voltage drop... or "Vf". Since you have a drop in voltage across a device, and there's current flowing through it, you end up with some heat being generated in the diode. And here's the equation for that - Vf multiplied by the current gives the power in wat