Lecture Notes - Chapter 4
(These Lecture Notes are for courses using the book
the
Complete Electronics Self-Teaching Guide with Projects. Instructors of courses
using that text are permitted to use these Lecture Notes as-is or adapt
them for their use).
The Transistor Switch
- Turning the Transistor ON
- Discuss the use of a lamp in place of the collector resistor
RC (figure 4.3).
- Introduce the terms; load and load current.
- Review the equation to calculate the required load current.
- Discuss the calculation to determine the base current that
will result in the required load current.
- Show the calculation used to determine the value of the base
resistor needed to obtain the desired base current.
- Why Transistors are used as Switches
- Discuss the advantages of transistor switches vs. mechanical
switches.
- Discuss Project 4.1: The Transistor Switch
- Review the circuit diagram (figure 4.9).
- Mention that circuits similar to this are commonly used in
stores to ring a buzzer when a customer walks through the door.
- The Two Transistors Switch
- Discuss the two transistor switch circuit (figure
4.16)
- Summarize how the voltages and currents in the circuit
change when the switch is changed from position A to position B
(figure 4.17).
- Discuss the calculations needed to find the values of R1,
R2 and R3 to produce a specified load
current.
- The Three Transistor Switch
- Discuss the three transistor switch circuit (figure
4.19)
- Summarize how the voltages and currents in the circuit
change when the switch is changed from position A to position B.
- Discuss the calculations needed to find the values of R1,
R2, R3 and R4 to produce a specified load
current.
- Alternative Base Switching
- Discuss the transistor circuit with the base terminal at the
junction of R1 and R2 (figure 4.20).
- Discuss the calculations needed to find the values of R1 and
R2.
- Discuss Project 4.2: The JFET
- Review the circuit diagram (figure 4.22).
- Discuss the expected result of this project; the I-V curve
for the JFET.
- Switching the JFET
- Review the JFET circuit diagram (figure 4.29).
- Discuss the calculations needed to find the value of RD.
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