This Week on the Breadboard: The Germanium Filter

[Chuck D. Bones]

In the right circuit, they can impart a smoother tone, fewer high-order harmonics.

And then there's the MOJO factor.

 

[jwin615]

2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Reverse Biasing An NPN BJT

For the Component Abuse Challenge our hacker [Tim Williams] observes that N-P-N reads the same way forwards and backwards, so… what happens if we reverse bias one? (Note: this remark about N-…

hackaday.com

 

[Chuck D. Bones]

I have seen Si transistors operated in reverse beta mode in a precision synchronous rectifier where the extremely low Vce,sat is highly beneficial.

 

[giovanni]

For my own understanding, the Ge transistors work with reverse beta which is completely undocumented? Now that is punk.