Something that I never knew until now. I’ll have to investigate further. Texas Instruments’ Gordon Teal Demonstrated Silicon transistor’s superiority at high temperature in 1954 https://www.facebook.com/reel/4383015895310864/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
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2012-09-22 Germanium Joule Thief Squeezes The Energizer Bunny
Here is my latest germanium Joule Thief, shown squeezing the last few hundred millivolts out of the Energizer Bunny (“It just keep going and going…”). This is a real Zombie Battery Killer – that last half volt left after the regular silicon JT has given up is now sucked out, down to less than0.2V.
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