Take one P channel Jfet and one N channel Jfet and connect them in series so the two sources are together, connect the gate of each transistor to the other one's drain. This is known as a lambda connection, and if you plot the voltage vs current from drain to drain you will see a negative resistance region, usually around 3v (depending on the transistors). The circuit will work as a tunnel diode oscillator up to 100-200mhz.
Did you know that a carbon arc acts as a negative resistance? Run the arc on DC and put an LC tuned circuit in series with the arc (coil of heavy copper tubing) and you have a powerful oscillator.
We worked with a company that was developing an xray imager, and was buying very expensive electrically conductive glass (gigohms per square sort of range.) They discovered that certain welding glass was identical and about 1/20 the price.
John
Certainly.
I used arc welding glasses when conducing these experiments.
Some trivia:
In the silent film era, actors had eye problems due to the UV radiation from arc studio lamps.
Most of the usable illumination from the arc lights is actually from the glowing carbon electrodes.
"Automatic arc lights" used a solenoid in series with the arc to keep the distance constant between the poles regardless of carbon electrode burnout. I assume that if this is to be used with a AC arc light, both the moving coil as well as the static coil should carry the arc current.
Paul OH3LWR
A 2N2369 is a gold-doped NPN, gold-doped to kill storage time and improve recovery from saturation. I don't recall any PNP device with gold-doping... or the equivalent.
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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
And optocouplers can do interesting things:
Very simple high-voltage opamp, up to 400 volts p-p.
Isolated totem-pole driver, from a few volts up to 400.
Current limiter.
Low-leakage diode, sort of like an LED painted black.
John
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Exactly-when I was a kid we made them like this all the time. As I recall, it came from "700 scientific experiments, with illustrations"...
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To save power, use the LEDs of a backlight to measure the ambient light to decide to switch the backlight on or not.
M.
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The Motorola McMOS handbook (2nd edition 1974) warns about this usage by pointing out that by cascading three such AC coupled stages, the last stage will be saturated by the noise from the first stage.
Paul OH3LWR
I posted some opamp schematics to abse a while back. I guess I could do it again if they're no longer available.
The others chould be fairly obvious.
John
Switching a 20 year old 24v weller soldering iron on and off is a good test for seeing if an 8051 cpu board is EMC proof
martin
Right, if CTR > 1.
John
Going the other direction, I used the elements from a toaster as a load to discharge wet-cell lead-acid batteries. It was a discharge/charge cycling test.
John
But, it's a bit easier to degauss your picture tube with a soldering gun than with a refrigerator.
John
E.G the CMOS 4007. See the old handbooks for a '100dB amplifier' based on a RCA chip - there was a wiring error in that old description - IIRC it was 3800? - whatever, the 4007 is the same chip.
Murray vk4aok
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btw, do you know a standard complementary pnp-transistor for the 2N2369, such like 2N3905 but with higher ft and less feedback capacitance? It seems that the manufactorers have almost no data on their internet pages.
mfg. Winfried
It ran off 120 V. Parse the sentence as "two D-cell-carbon arc lamp." An earlier poster talked about building AC-powered arc lamps using the carbon rods from dry cells.
Cheers,
Phil Hobbs
It also works for this: Vcc !/c --/\\/\\/\\---+------! ! !\\e V ! --- ----/\\/\\/--+--- too load ! ! --------------------
You get a current limit and an indicator light.
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