Meatball
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if it lasts 100 hours I vote for pushing it until it pops to see how far can they be pushed for short periods. Even if it's a freak diode it's degraded now, so we could get reasonable data...
OR, we could also make a lottery and donate it to the donators...![]()
That wouldn't tell us anything useful. It would only show what would happen if we kicked up the current after 100 hours. Who does that on a regular basis? Who needs to know what happens?
I say that keeping the current the same throughout this kind of experiment is the best thing to do. You don't go changing variables during the experiment upon a whim. We can set the current higher on the next torture diode. This one ought to stay put.
If you want to see one pop, try it with a diode of your own. Not with one that has already been tortured for 100 hours or so.