Nitestar DMI Vehicle Distance Measurer. Note: On some vehicles - specifically trucks, the OBDII adapter will not report the proper speed to the DMI display, resulting in lower than actual distances measured. For the vehicles on which this problem has been observed, the distance recorded will be less than 10% of actual.
It is a lustrous, hard, grayish-white metalloid in the carbon group, chemically similar to its group neighbors tin and silicon. Purified germanium is a semiconductor, with an appearance most similar to elemental silicon. Like silicon, germanium naturally reacts and forms complexes with oxygen in nature. Unlike silicon, it is too reactive to be found naturally on Earth in the free (native) state.
Because silicon is relatively easy and inexpensive to obtain and process, silicon diodes are more prevalent than germanium diodes. Germanium Diodes. Germanium diodes are manufactured in a manner similar to silicon diodes. Germanium diodes also utilize a p-n junction and are implanted with the same impurities that silicon diodes are implanted with. Germanium diodes, however, have a forward-bias voltage of 0.3 Volts. Germanium is a rare material that is typically found with copper, lead or silver deposits. Because of its rarity, germanium is more expensive to work with, thus making germanium diodes more difficult to find (and sometimes ...