ly to increase bandwidth, albeit at the cost of gain. "
I'll be damned. Just looked it up and Veb is like 25 volts. I would have ne ver thunk it so high. Think germanium and you almost automatically think lo wer voltages. But there it is in my old spec book fom Howard W. Sams back in the 1980s, maybe a but earlier. The 2N711 is not rated but the 2N1193 is .
I doubt it will make the bandwidth but at least I can be more sure of the r eadings I take.
I already checked the power supply and all regulated voltages are fine, the unregulated voltages are all low but the line voltage is down to like 108 volts. That is true RMS so if the tops ad bottoms of the sine wave are clip ped off it means even lower rectified voltages off the power transformer. b ut I temporarily turned off the electric heater running on the same extensi on ad the voltages came up, no change.
You mean to put across the emitter and base ? I don't have alot of confiden ce in that method. Maybe if I give it some resistance to the collector ? I dunno. It is a common collector stage so it should be able to handle a bit more gain. But 40 times as much ? I think that is asking alot.
This book does not give a range or hfe versus HFE, it just specifies it at a certain collector current.