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Old 12-13-2013, 12:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Stretch View Post
Even this simple electrickery has me confused.

To me a diode is a non return valve - how can a non return valve in parallel help with anything? Assuming the flow is from positive to negative - what would come up from the earth that would need to flow the opposite way?
Here's a good paper on the subject. It shows a suppressing diode across the relay or the switch. It is more common to have it across the relay.

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