"reverse diode"

I like Jim Thompson's approach, using FETs and a FET opamp.

yeah, but it only stinks once!

Jamie

Why is Jim's approach any different than the thousands of circuits that have used basic driver eliminate devices biased with a high loop gain for current limits or what ever? I mean to me, it's such an elementary thing and I don't consider myself as being an authority on this subject?

It just seems to me that for example; If 1k people can quote the same answer and only the few selected get credit for it, well after those 1k have already shown the work of the same type of circuit?

I just think there are far too many around here getting run over by the sheep in support of their herder.

I find it very interesting how talented posters can go through the work of presenting a complete working scenario. No one even makes comment on it until a herder drops in and presents the same exact text, as if it was copied and pasted? And yes, the sheep come out and will phrase this person on both knees like they are Ala or what ever.. Makes me laugh at them, the sheep that is, the way they respond. Must be a free lunch in it for em somewhere?

Exclude myself from those comments. I don't give a rats ass one way or the other. I just think this place is getting like our political system, it's all one sided and full of bull shit that is getting very stinky!

I am sure the known herders are getting their feathers all up in a ruffle by now, and you know who you are.

Jamie

Jim posted an example that fitted the problem, with simulation results that look about right.

Nothing earth-shattering, but self-explanatory without having to wade through reams of badly-expressed verbiage, or, worse, ASCII "circuits".

There are many ways of achieving the same result, but that's what I'd go for. My opinion only.

Why get wound up over this?

'Maynard A Philbrook JR, KA1LPA' AKA 'jamie' is a know it all ham radio operator.

Ah! Radio ham...

Smoked porker! ;-)

I wouldn't put much credence in what jerky MT has to offer. He's one person with very little to offer other than the obvious appearance he displays as being a "Used to be, Wanta be". From what I've seen in the far past (he's on my initial block list), he has never displayed anything worth reading and I got tired of him trying to black ball every one that didn't bow to his useless train of thought, and I can't remember if he had ever said anything that was ever worth reading.

You and who ever can follow his caret if you wish, you'll find what he spews out is nothing more than condescending comments, only because he has nothing to offer any more to society and most likely has been a load on the system much of his life. There is nothing like a useless disgruntle has been.

As for amateur radio? I would say there are many , and I say many, out there that would put a lot of those here, that pride themselves as higher up in the food chain, to shame. I know there are a few operators here that understand exactly where I am coming from. Sorry, but I work with people that wonder why I even bother with this place after they logged in a read a few articles posted here.

It's a pity that people like MT must miss lead others, so they can be brain washed to side with such a mess, like MT. It's a shame others can't see how transparent he really is, like I do.

I am sure many here understand exactly where I am coming from. He's what you call the sheep herder that has lost his flock and will try any thing to get back some, even unworthy one's, as long as they side with him.

P.S.

If I had known there was any context of MT in your post, I would have never read it. Now and then I read others that happen to have MT in the context, as soon as see any of it, I just go to the next post. It does not matter if he is talking about me or who ever else, what he has to say is a waste of band space and server usage, as for as I am concern.

Have fun chasing his dangling caret he has out for the unsuspected.

Jamie

Caret? Another illiterate post from Maynard. :(

^Horse. Putting the caret before the horse. If you use a carrot you get = an=20 Amish perpetual motion machine!

And since the symbol can be used for an exponential term, what is your = car's=20 Horse^?

:)

Paul=20

Only for the 'unsuspected'.

Bwuahahahahahaha!

But only if "your" "unsuspected".

This is *sci*.electronics.design, which indicates to me that it is a forum for scientists. engineers, and technicians, rather than operators.

Without wishing to start yet another ad-hominem thread, I will just say that I have been reading, and sometimes replying to, Mike Terrell's posts for more than ten years, and have found him to be a competent, experienced, and interesting technician, with a sense of humor.

Even though I might not always agree with his views or arguments. This is, after all, a discussion group. Personalities sometimes clash.

My final word on the subject.

So, you can't be an Amateur operator, even though it expands far beyond just spinning the dials, to be classified as anything but?

I guess you've already caught and eaten the carrot. Don't be surprised when it brings a rotten taste, if you ever wake up.

P.S. Regardless of what you've been conditioned to think otherwise, you'll find one day you may have made an error in that assessment. And btw, you obviously do not know what I really do other than what those like MT has condition you to think. Brings a smile to my face to see how blind sided many are here.

Have fun with the herders.

Jamie.

Then shut up.

Then find different group to pester.

He didn't ask you to.

Describes you to a T.

After seeing what you post, nobody wants to be identified with your hobby.

The rest of us wonder that, too. Please don't bother with us.

^^^^^ Carrot, you uneducated idiot!

A mental hospital? The slums? Primary school? A ham class?

I thought you said it was a .....................caret.

You are so stupid that it is a miracle that your brain can keep your heart working.

What you really do is spend your time posting to this group to give everyone a laugh and attempt to assuage your damaged ego.

forward voltage and high impedance at some larger voltage?

Yes, there is. It's called a 'current limit diode' and is just a JFET with gate/source connected. But, it's 'high impedance' in the sense that it becomes a current source, with dI/dV very small, and not in the sense that it passes no current at all.

In the other bias, of course, it just turns from voltage-controlled-resistor into a regular forward diode curve.