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- From: toddi@mav.com (Todd Inch)
- Subject: Re: Tube primer?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.212057.29180@mav.com>
- Organization: Maverick International Inc.
- References: <1992Nov06.234842.190001@zeus.calpoly.edu> <1992Nov14.073048.5200@weyrich.UUCP>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 21:20:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov14.073048.5200@weyrich.UUCP> uunet.uu.net!weyrich!orville writes:
-
- >Note -- the above looks a lot like a collector-coupled NPN transistor
- >circuit also -- emitter is like cathode
- > base is like grid
- > collector is like plate.
-
- Except applying voltage to the grid decreases current flow from the cathode
- to plate while applying current to the base of a NPN (BJT) increases the
- collector-emitter current. So, a tube works more like an FET from a practical
- standpoint.
-
- I believe the europeans used to (still?) call tubes "valves" since they limit/
- allow the flow of current. Hence the reference designator "V" on schematics.
-
- It's been awhile since I've thought about this!
-