"Greg Mayman" bravely wrote to "Mike Ross" (11 Feb 04  08:54:00)
 --- on the heady topic of "BAG OF CHIPS"

 GM> 1. Comparators don't normally have any internal feedback. If they
 GM> had some positive feedback, the positive and negative trigger
 GM> levels would be different and they would be called Schmitt
 GM> Trigger Buffers.

The LM311 seems to have a signal path between the output pre-driver and
the "Balance/Strobe" input terminal pin but it seems to be a current
source so perhaps it has no effect. Couldn't adding a little
regeneration simply increase the overall gain without affecting the
trigger levels?

 Mike
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