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RE: Why put snubbers on a Schottky rectifier? (nt)

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Why use snubbers with schottky's? Well they don't produce a voltage spike when shutting off but the capacitance of the diode and the inductance of the transformer secondary form a tank circuit which is excited when the diode switches off...


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