[donh]

More B.S. I've soldered diodes back to back not to get a transistor but to get a bridge rectifier. The diodes were not destroyed. The bridge rectifier worked.

Which is, of course, totally irrelevant, since you did not pin their junctions together to get the tunneling effect of the PN pair regulating the net output. Had you attempted to do so with your soldering iron, you would have, of course, melted the containers.

[AndrewC]

Which is, of course, totally irrelevant, since you did not pin their junctions together to get the tunneling effect of the PN pair regulating the net output.

Which, of course, makes my original statement, that a transistor was in a sense two diodes back-to-back, entirely correct. But you still have the gall to continue the discussion. It is now ended. You have verified my original statement.