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#190: Back to Basics: Transistor Current Sources and Mirrors

w2aew • January 17, 2015

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This video is a back-to-basics tutorial on transistor current sources - what they are, some applications for them, and some circuit examples. The basic characteristics of current sources and sinks are presented and demonstrated, including the measurement of the output impedance of these simple current sources. Here is a link to the note pages used in this video: http://www.qsl.net/w2aew/youtube/transistorcurrentsources.pdf Viewer +BersekViking pointed out a problem with my test setup. Can you guess what it is? Here is a link to my followup video: http://youtu.be/JbCI4Lsnqho

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