412: Inductors Don't Have Feelings
Embedded12 Mai 2022

412: Inductors Don't Have Feelings

Tom Anderson returned to the show to describe how transistors and passives work. We discuss everything from vacuum tubes to diodes to transistors (PNP and NPN) to resistors and capacitors. We search for synonyms among the confusing terminology of cathodes, plates, emitters, anodes, grids, bases, and collectors.

This was a tech heavy episode so little bit of brushing up on terms may be useful before (or after):

Transcript.

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