Conventional current flow VS Electron current flow

[Dave45]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWIUzoYKIM8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CMouk8qAdU
Very close to Akula circuit

[Dave45]

Another interesting circuit
The bemf from L1 charges C2 which pulls hard on the ground through the primary of TR,
very interesting simple circuit.

[MileHigh]

Loner:

To say "pesky positive EMF" as if it was "hidden" or some kind of a secret is just silly. 

Say you were to actually separate the Pos EMF and the Neg EMF.

it really means using only one of the two or splitting the Neq and Pos forces out.

There is no set of EMFs in opposite directions or "splitting of the positive" or any of this.

The big "leap" is for people to come to the realization that it makes no difference to use conventional current or electron current.  The conventional current is just a SYMBOL, that means the real electron current.  It's just a small tax on using your imagination to visualize something.  We use symbols all the time, what's the problem?  It's what it really IS that matters.

It's just like water circulating in pipes in a loop powered by a water pump.  As you travel around the current loop there is a unique voltage at every place around the loop, and each point can also change in voltage with respect to time.  It's all just about saying to yourself "what is the voltage doing?" as you discuss the current flow.   When you understand this you can discuss the voltage or the current, but all the time if you are discussing one you are aware of the other.  That's the big "Big Visualization" that many people, including people around here, are not getting.

I know all about transistors and MOSFETs.  Your line about not knowing that you could make a transistor yourself is a cheap and pretentious shot, because I am assuming that you are fully aware that I am decent with respect to electronics.  The business about making your own transistors is from the previous generation to my generation.  That was already in the dustbin of history when I came around.  I have been talking electronics on and off for 35 years and the first time I ever heard it was here.  For me making a transistor means a whole different thing.  You pull a silicon seed crystal out of a crucible filled with molten ultra-pure silicon to make a silicon ignot.  Then you selectively dope a small cleaved-off silicon crystal to create the P and N regions using photolithography in some kind of sputtering/whatever vacuum chamber.   The Ps and Ns are one atomic number below and above the silicon.  The two doping elements are sputtered and they bombard the silicon crystal and penetrate their way into the crystal matrix to create the P and N regions.  Now that doesn't sound so easy that you could do it in your kitchen, does it?

MileHigh

[Magluvin]

First transistor

Mags

[Magluvin]

Replica of first transistor. 

Mags