To be fair I'd have to look up the meaning of cathode and anode to answer
that one - I know which direction to put a diode in a circuit (even in a
buck regulator, where it's kind of non-intuitive), but not the names of the
ends!

On 6/12/07, Herbert Graf <mailinglist3@farcite.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 15:24 -0400, Chris Smolinski wrote:
> My best "in the lab" example of this is one of my final 4th year labs we
> had to put together a circuit, and a person came to me, very
> intelligent, not sure about 4.0 GPA, but probably one of the best
> students in the class, and asked me which end of a diode was the
> cathode...
>
> 4 years of lectures, quizzes, exams and many labs, and something as
> simple as the little line on a diode was still something they didn't
> know.
>
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