On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 4:47 PM, David Roberson <[email protected]> wrote:
> If someone is looking for an analogy they could look at the behavior of a > power transistor mounted on a heat sink. For this exercise assume that the > collector is directly connected to a power source. Apply enough base drive > to obtain a relatively large collector current. > Really not the same. The base signal controls the collector signal, it does not control the production of the energy. So I don't see how it informs the problem at all.

