What controls the power amp section?

ecc83

Hmm? Well, 'nothing' weighs nothing which is why they cannot quite get electrons to light speed despite huge energy inputs.

No matter, so long as things work!

Dave.

Modulus_Amps

I think this conversation might have just gone past the point of being suitable for a guitar forum.....

Anyway regardless of what KOC thinks about flow of charge, the two books of his that I have a riddled with error and obsolete opinion, there are much much better sources these days

ICBM

ecc83 said:

Hmm? Well, 'nothing' weighs nothing which is why they cannot quite get electrons to light speed despite huge energy inputs.

No - a 'hole' does weigh nothing because it is not a physical object, it's the *lack* of an electron. It's not the atom missing the electron that moves, just the lack of the electron which effectively moves because the electron has gone the other way.

It is absolutely true that nothing physical moves in the direction of conventional current, but it's still a flow of current because positive charge can be considered to move that way around the circuit.

Regardless, it would be a major pain in the backside to throw out all the standardised circuit designs to show them in terms of electron current . Especially as in a negative-ground system (which as far as I know all valve circuits are because of the very nature of cathode emission) it would actually be a lot more complicated.

Danny1969

Does the direction of an electron depend on whether we are looking at it or not ?  

ecc83

"Regardless, it would be a major pain in the backside to throw out all the standardised circuit designs to show them in terms of electron current . Especially as in a negative-ground system (which as far as I know all valve circuits are because of the very nature of cathode emission) it would actually be a lot more complicated. "

Agreed IC, as per my point about Mr Flemming. If you are using the term 'hole' as a concept then yes, it can be massless.

Dave.

jpfamps

Current flow can be due to movement of either positively or negatively charged particles, so conventional current was always going to "wrong" under some circumstances.

jpfamps

Danny1969 said:

Does the direction of an electron depend on whether we are looking at it or not ?  

Heisenberg would say so......