Transistors Explained – What is a transistor?
What is a transistor is and how it works, explained quickly and easily
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What is a transistor is and how it works, explained quickly and easily
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That last part about them burning out is so real. When I was trying to get into robotics as a kid, I was using a transistor so that I could apply a 5V power supply to 4 different motors at once that were pulling the thing along. What should have happened is probably having parallel transistors to distribute the current across. I had to swap that one transistor out from my robot so many times…
So a transistor is the same as a solenoid in a car/auto application? Damn my life would be so much easier if we all used the same word to describe all the things that do that same stuff.
What is the difference between this and a MOSFET?
Sooo, it’s a relay?