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Subject:Re: Resistor and diode values for 88+ vanagon instrument cluster
From:David Beierl
Date:Mon, 16 Dec 2013 14:51:13 -0500

At 08:54 AM 12/16/2013, Jarrett Kupcinski wrote:
>Closer inspection reveals that both diodes are the same. They're
>1N4004, and it looks like they're still available. Thanks again for
>pointing my eyes in the right direction, David.

You're welcome.  You can use 1N4004/5/6/7, whatever is
cheapest.  4004 has a Peak Reverse Voltage of 400 V and the others
are 600/800/1000 V.

It's a general-purpose 1-amp (absolute max @25C) diode, extremely
common.  Can (just) handle an 8 ms half-sine pulse of 30 amps.

Yrs,
d