-=> Roy J. Tellason said to Greg Mayman
 -=> about "*BIG* TRANSISTORS" on 01-09-04  04:06.....

 RJT> Oh?  What little experimentation I did with that involved two of them,
 RJT> with a 100nF cap connecting the anodes.  When one was on turning the
 RJT> other one on would turn the first one off.  Load was something like a
 RJT> light bulb,  I think (it's been a while).

But IIRC they had to draw about the same current in each.

Although I think I recall one circuit that just pulled a very
brief pulse to turn the SCR off. It's a long time since I looked
at stuff like that...

From Greg Mayman, in beautiful Adelaide, South Australia
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