[sdiy] They aren't sawtooths, they're ramps

[John Mahoney]

At 05:59 PM 11/5/2009, David G. Dixon wrote:
>...
>The discrete version takes about 200ns to switch.  It takes about 150ns to
>make up its mind, but then the actual switching takes place very fast,
>within about 50ns.  However, it doesn't begin switching very swiftly.

Can you speed up the "make up its mind" part by feeding some bias to 
the transistor so that it's closer to the switching threshold?

Keep in mind that I'm virtually clueless. (Alright, Harry -- I'm 
totally clueless! ;-)

John