[Amps] Zener Screen Regulators

[Carl]

I still do it the Navy way, its hard to change all that training.
At various jobs where they didnt understand basic current flow I just 
cheated.....

Carl
KM1H

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill, W6WRT" <dezrat1242 at yahoo.com>
To: "AMPS" <amps at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 8:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] Zener Screen Regulators


> ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
> On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 00:00:40 -0400, Bill wrote:
>
>>Some use old navy
>>training books. Naturally, those use electron
>>current flow and all the engineering materials use conventional current
>>flow (positive to negative).
>>A bit confusing for a young engineer but not for an old timer who has had
>>to deal with both.
>>73
>>Bill wa4lav
>
> REPLY:
> One of life's great mysteries to me is why the professional electronics
> community continues to propagate the falsehood of "conventional" current 
> flow.
> It is as if civil engineers designed things based on water that flows 
> uphill.
>
> Perhaps in the next life the creator can explain it to me. No one in this 
> life
> ever has.  :-)
>
> 73, Bill W6WRT
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