> There are many schemes that are the responsibility of EEs such as > ourselves to invent, but one I use is to simply cascade a PNP emitter > follower into an NPN one (or vice versa). Another one I've seen is to put a forward-biased diode before the emitter follower. It's the same idea except the Vbe compensation uses the diode instead of a second follower. And you could use another NPN for the diode, thus avoiding a PNP. Andy ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.net List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu