Epicurean
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Oh, that was just to get about 100mA bias on the transistors. Since there is a 0.7V voltage drop across BE the voltage across the emitter resistor is 13V - 0.7V = 12.3V. It all depends on how much bias you want and how big resistors values you use.
Originally Posted by cotdt /img/forum/go_quote.gif why 13V, and not 12V? |
Oh, that was just to get about 100mA bias on the transistors. Since there is a 0.7V voltage drop across BE the voltage across the emitter resistor is 13V - 0.7V = 12.3V. It all depends on how much bias you want and how big resistors values you use.