Re: all-BJT LED driver (was re: Transistor as a current limiter)

Jul 18, 2013 0 Replies


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>>Saturated BJT in the diff-amp?
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>(The base drive will have to be significant, relative to the
>common diff-amp emitter currents. That means a stiff divider.
>Gain will also be poor, I believe.)
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>Jon

Actually, this works better than I thought it would, given the constraint of no opamps but ignoring the constraint of no mosfets.


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It servoes Vsrc down to 10s of millivolts. Seems to be closed-loop AC stable, too.


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Q2 base current is nanoamps.


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