[ExI] Electronic Circuit Question (Emitter Follower)

[Jef Allbright]

On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Bryan Bishop <kanzure at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  I was recently brushing up on my understanding of transistor tech, and
>  while my understanding isn't of the same nature that Jef portrays, it
>  was my interpretation that transistors throw off because of the
>  restriction to the amount of electrons that can flow through due to the
>  field effect generated by the incoming electrons from the base. If its
>  voltage was to drop, I think that would mean that the field would
>  become inverted, thus not allowing anything to travel through any of
>  the doped material. But this is my layman interpretation.

Note that the example was of an emitter-follower using not an FET but
a silicon junction transistor.

> Consult Jef.

Please don't.  Transistor circuits ceased to be of much interest to me
30 years ago.

- Jef

- Jef