Why not 2 legs like everybody else? Thank you so mugs
Hi, why transitors have 3 legs?
Jun 29, 2012
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Wilma,
I have three legs, one is just shorter then the other two.
Same with transistors, the short one controls the other two.
hamilton
An Excellent answer!
Those are actually just fuses.
You can fix pretty near anything by replacing the blown three-legged fuses.
Lord Valve
That was a pretty base observation.
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John Larkin Highland Technology Inc
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Don't you mean baseless?
No, it's pretty well grounded.
A two legged transistor could be a collector's item.
ge
Ouch! that would hurt.... I beta just keep my mouth shut.
George H.
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John Larkin Highland Technology Inc
www.highlandtechnology.com jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com
Precision electronic instrumentation
Picosecond-resolution Digital Delay and Pulse generators
Custom timing and laser controllers
Photonics and fiberoptic TTL data links
VME analog, thermocouple, LVDT, synchro, tachometer
Multichannel arbitrary waveform generators
You are showing your bias.
--Winston
Sometimes they are too inebriated and then they would fall over on just two legs :-)
SCNR, Joerg
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I found this webpage to be similarly helpful and informative:
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That's a great teaching aid.
Thanks
They even fall over when uninebriated if they have only two legs. Think of a milking stool.
Not if you bend the leads so each leg has a "foot" :-)
Regards, Joerg
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I thought the short leg had no conscience?
Jamie
Maybe it's meant as political control. Then it doesn't need a conscience :-)
Regards, Joerg
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Lets us not forget the negative voltage effect that will give you a pulse generator with only 2 leads of a NPN.
Of course, this discovery led to the tunnel diode.
And also, the photo transistor.
Jamie
Of course a political control needs a conscience - it needs to know when what it does is going to upset some non-politicians. It's just that politicians seem to be able to ignore their consciences from time to time.
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
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