One of the joys of writing up the entries for the 2025 Component Abuse Challenge has come in finding all the different alternative uses for the humble transistor. This building block of all modern ...

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This video explains how transistors work and how they are used to switch and amplify electrical signals in electronic circuits. Transistors are fundamental to all modern digital and analog systems.

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Equal resistors R added in series with both emitters will develop voltages Vr = I1*R and I2*R that will be equal if the ...

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A simple way to stabilize the operating temperature of any components that need it. Part 1 shows the purely analog approach, ...