On Monday 04 November 2024 04:44:27 pm wn4isx wrote:
Speaking of things that have gone away, I miss unijunctions. I have about 2 dozen and pick projects for them with great care. PUTs suck bilge water on a good day.
What do you have against PUTs?
I think I may have one UJT, I ran across something and just looking at it I was thinking about picking up some of those. You can do a pretty good simulation of them with a cross-connected complementary pair. Use that as an SCR, SCS, PUT, all sorts of ways. Not sure if you could make it act like a Schockley diode or not, though.
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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