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 * ]s, more easily supply high-impedance inputs than Bipolar Junction Transistor-based amplifiers although current buffer circuits or step-down transformers

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 * circuit design and component optimization, forward grid current will still load the input signal and reduce the Q of the tuned circuit. Plate detectors have the

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Source or Sink?
Maitchy, a floating current source is both sourcing and sinking 2-terminal element - it sources the current by the one terminal and sinks the current by the other terminal; so it has an input and output for the current flowing through it. When connecting (fixing) some of its terminals to a rail (ground or Vcc), we begin seeing only the other (floating) terminal. If the current exits the (output) terminal, we call it "current source"; if it enters the (input) terminal, we call it "current sink". Regards, Circuit dreamer (talk, contribs, email) 21:22, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

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Christchurch Wikipedia Meetups


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