Re: What do they "degenerate"?

From: Paul Burridge (pb_at_notthisbit.osiris1.co.uk)
Date: 06/29/04 

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 20:14:35 +0100

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 19:40:50 +0100, "Leon Heller"
<leon_heller@hotmail.com> wrote:

>"Paul Burridge" <pb@notthisbit.osiris1.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:e2m2e05gch38b7f2sgj1vdj4ar4jfm4nso@4ax.com...
>> On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 07:10:13 +0100, "Kevin Aylward"
>> <kevin.aylwardEXTRACT@anasoft.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> >Well, this is not really accurate. Sure, the gain does change with
>> >temperature, but its not that drastic. A more series problem is that
>> >without an emitter resister, you can only handle, say 10mv, and even
>> >this would be at 10% distortion.
>>
>> What's your favourite level for Ve, Kev?
>
>A useful rule of thumb is to make the bypassed emitter resistance about 1/10
>of the collector resistance, according to the AoE. You can fix the gain with
>an unbypassed resistance.

True enough; and there's a right config. for doing this and a wrong
one. I was just interested in Kev's view on his favourite Ve., but he
seems to have interpreted it as some sort of trick question, as no
answer appears forthcoming...
<shrug> 

-- 
"What is now proved was once only imagin'd." - William Blake, 1793.

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