<div dir="auto">The two transistor SCR was also used by Jim Williams in the AN299 VCO.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Neil</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, 5 Apr 2018, 20:16 Tom Wiltshire, <<a href="mailto:tom@electricdruid.net">tom@electricdruid.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">So this transistor arrangement replaces the comparator+hysteresis that you’d see on a typical ramp osc?<br>
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> On 5 Apr 2018, at 14:41, <a href="mailto:rburnett@richieburnett.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">rburnett@richieburnett.co.uk</a> wrote:<br>
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> The back-to-back arrangement of NPN and PNP transistors in the TB-303 oscillator forms a Thyristor (SCR). Once the voltage is sufficient to turn on one transistor, each of the transistors in this pair provides the base current for the other. So the pair of transistors remain latched on, until the capacitor is recharged. Once it's recharged there is no current flow, so the SCR drops out of the latched state and the discharging ramp commences again.<br>
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> -Richie,<br>
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> On 2018-04-05 14:26, Gordonjcp wrote:<br>
>> If you look at the VCO in a TB303 or in a Korg Polysix they appear to<br>
>> use a kind of current mirror arrangement with two NPN trannies, and then<br>
>> a PNP tranny with its base wired to the collector of one and its<br>
>> collector to the collector of the mirror through a diode.<br>
>> There's a capacitor - to the "negative" rail in the 303 (really ground<br>
>> but that's referenced to the +5.33V suppy) or to the "positive" rail in<br>
>> the Polysix - which charges up and is discharged through the expo<br>
>> converter.<br>
>> At some point for a reason I can't entirely figure out, as the capacitor<br>
>> discharges something in the current mirror conducts and it charges again<br>
>> briefly, but I don't get why.<br>
>> Can anyone shed any light?<br>
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