[Amps] Zener Screen Regulators

Ron Youvan ka4inm at gmail.com
Tue Sep 4 23:50:57 EDT 2012


   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.
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