Since the two schools could not agree, they invented AC.
Everybody's theory can be satisfied half the time.
73s de Jim
W5IFP
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Amps [mailto:amps-bounces@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Ron Youvan
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 10:51 PM
> To: amps
> Subject: Re: [Amps] Zener Screen Regulators
>
>
> Al AB2ZY Kozakiewicz wrote:
>
> > By definition, current flow is the flow of charges. The fact
> that negative charges are embodied by a particle (an electron)
> is interesting, but irrelevant.
>
> > Negative charges flow in one direction; positive in another.
> The use of the direction of positive charges as the direction
> of positive current flow is entirely arbitrary. But it is the
> convention and is every bit as valid as the inverse.
>
> I was taught that electricity is the flow if electrons in
> one direction, I think charges exist
> and change but I never head of charges "flowing" and holes flow
> in the other direction.
>
> Conventional current flow {reverse of electron flow} (used
> by Heath ?, GE, colleges) was a from
> pre-electronics battery charging times. The operation of the
> CRT disproves conventional current
> flow if nothing leading up to it does. Why many college
> professors STILL teach conventional current
> flow has mystified me for over 50 years.
> --
> 73 Ron KA4INM - All E-mail sent to this address shall
> linger in the Google cloud forever!
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