Electronics question..

[Kyosho]

I'm relatively new to electronics, and I've got a question which I hope has a good answer.

Is there a way to allow current to go one way on a wire, but not the other? Lets say I have a wire which I want power to be able to travel from right to left, but not left to right. Is there something I can solder in, in between the two ends of the wire, to do this?

[vb_master]

I'm relatively new to electronics, and I've got a question which I hope has a good answer.

Is there a way to allow current to go one way on a wire, but not the other? Lets say I have a wire which I want power to be able to travel from right to left, but not left to right. Is there something I can solder in, in between the two ends of the wire, to do this?

Diode.

[atari2600a]

I apologize for the following, but it just has to be said! I can't physically not type this at a moment like this!

<img src="http://www.ilstu.edu/~tjsanos/images/n00b.jpg">

Sorry...

[vb_master]

<img src="http://www.ilstu.edu/~tjsanos/images/n00b.jpg">

Nice one!

[atari2600a]

Your's looks kinda MS-Paint'ed. Did you make that yourself, or just Google it?

(Before you edited your post...)

[Skyone]

Sheesh, aren't we a bit mean to this guy? Yes, it is a diode.

http://www.americanmicrosemi.com/tutorials/diode.htm

[Kyosho]

Thanks guys. Well, some of you. Heh.

[Triton]

[Skyone]

I really just felt like sharing this image with the world.

[atari2600a]

Nice! You should go w/ PNG on screenshots though (Assuming it's a simple HTML hack & not a Photoshop...), since the compression of JPEG gives it that horrid (compressed?) look...