From: Sean Breheny <shb7@cornell.edu>
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For what it's worth, I do quite a bit of power electronics professionally
and I've never heard the term "auctioneering diodes". I have heard diode OR
used in power circuits as well as steering diodes.

Sean

On Sat, Jul 17, 2021, 6:49 AM <foros@arocholl.com wrote:

> It looks like in online docs "Diode-OR" is mostly used for logic
> circuits, not power circuits, but I can see how this can be extended
> easily for many purposes.
>
> "auctioneering diodes" seems to be used exclusively for power circuits.
>
> Cheers. Ariel
>
> On 7/14/2021 6:07 AM, Jesse Lackey wrote:
> > I have always heard diodes used in schemes like this to be a "Diode-OR"
> > circuit for DC power combining.  FWIW.
> > J
> >
> >
> > foros@arocholl.com wrote:
> >> This is useful definition to know, I wasn't aware of the term
> >> "auctioneering diodes". A few very relevant docs show a design
> >> constraints to account for, just the kind of info I was after.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Ariel
> >>
> >> On 7/12/2021 10:35 PM, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
> >>>> I've worked on a couple circuits that had multiple supplies.
> >>>> The term I heard used was "auctioneering diodes".
> >>>> A quick google gives ~10k hits and at least the first page seems
> relevant
> >>>> to the discussion.
> >>>>
> >>>>     -Denny
> >>> Could the output diode in a typical flyback switcher serve as the
> >>> "auctioneering diode?"
> >>>
> >>> Harold
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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