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1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Aug-2018 03:33:42 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

   @natecull My saving grace when it comes to analog circuitry is operational amplifiers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_amplifier_applications

   As for transistors, I can follow if it's just a BJT with a current limiting resistor on the base and a pulldown resistor on the collector, but you lose completely me when there's a resistor on the emitter, or if someone drops a FET in there. I could never get FETs to do anything useful in a circuit.

   1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Aug-2018 03:35:19 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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      @natecull I also get confused if it's a PNP instead of an NPN.

      Oscillators I can sort of grok, because they're typically just feeding back into themselves through a component that delays the signal a little.

      1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Aug-2018 03:37:50 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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         @natecull This is probably the most complex analog circuit I've designed, a preamplifier for lapel microphones: http://thj.no/personal/preamp2.png