The sticky diode mountain is no more... thanks to Optivisor. This Chinese piece of junk finally paid for itself. It worked just fine, so much so that I could envisage looking at these hundreds of tiny glass diodes one by one right now.. so I did.
Result :
Ended up throwing away about 80 of them because their package was so minuscule, not even long enough to be called cylindrical, more like a tiny bead of glass... that there simply was no space for any markings on them, so there was none.
Then the rest was quite more diversified than I thought, 14 different zip bags in all ! Was well worth my time in the end, glad I made the effort to endure this sorting session...
So I have 5 types of signal diodes + 9 different values of Zener diodes !
Diodes :
- 1N4150 300mA 50V
- 1N4148 150mA 75V
- BAV21 250mA 200V, quite beefy for a tiny package
- BA204 150mA 50V ...only ONE off ! Doesn't look anything special so might as well discard it to avoid needlessly cluttering my drawers... need to rationalize inventory...
- TD129 50mA 50V apparently "obsolete", couldn't even find a datasheet for it ! Found only a couple vendors for it... Apparently it's nothing special and people just replace it with a common 1N4148 which has better specs. So since I have only 2 of these, might as well throw them away ?!....
Zener : 9 different values from 2.7V up to 30V, all from the ZPD series bar one, the 6.8V one which is a ZTK. Go figure.
4 of these I have only one or two off, but the others, the majority then, I have a good number of them, a dozen or so about, at a quick glance.
So overall piccie to sum it up :
- First row the beefier, rectifier diodes, that I sorted earlier today.
- Second row the small signal glass diodes
- Third row the Zener diodes sorted by voltage.
Quite happy, I have a bit of everything, all nicely sorted and labeled, that was a good day !
For now I can just cram all the Zener bags into a single little drawer, for compactness.
Same for the signal diodes, for now at least. Will probably spread them again later on, once I buy another of this smurf blue large 50 drawers unit.... H/W store has already increased its price I see ! Was 26,90 Euros a few days ago when I bought it, now up to 29,90 Euros, bastards !!!!
https://www.castorama.fr/casier-de-rangement-mac-allister-metal-50-tiroirs/3663602905448_CAFR.prdLuckily they have not increased the price of the smaller unit, that I intend to buy another one of, to store all my film/plastic and ceramic caps. Still at 22,90 Euros.
https://www.castorama.fr/casier-de-rangement-mac-allister-plastique-24-tiroirs/3663602905431_CAFR.prd