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You don't have the requisite male anatomy to admit when you're wrong.

I admit when I'm wrong, but in this case I'm not. And your childishly making penis references does not constitute proof that I am. On the contrary, it makes it obvious you have nothing else to make your case with.

A battery is the source of potential dipstick, the base or gate of a transistor is an inherent component of same.

No s***, Sherlock. My point exactly. Now are you trolling, or just too stupid to see the parallel I set out for you?

Here it is in words small enough even for you: I described how a semiconductor sandwich of two PN junctions in serial (one reversed) constitutes a transistor. A PN junction, for those of you who get your knowledge from creationist sources, is a diode. Thus a transistor (BJT type, anyway) is formed from two back-to-back diodes. QED.

Then you came along and babbled incoherently about how there has to be a voltage applied to the base of the transistor or it won't work. I pointed out that this was a stupid "point" and in no way invalidated my statement about transistors. Your non sequitur, I pointed out, was as stupid as objecting to the workability of a radio just because it wouldn't do anything without a battery. Well sure, but who'd ever be stupid enough to insist on faulting a radio for not working without a power source? Likewise, what kind of gibbering twit is going to fault a transistor for "not working" unless power is applied to its base (and elsewhere)?

Are we clear *now*, child? Go away and play, the adults are talking.

I repeat, get a refund forthwith.

You can repeat all the cheap unsupported accusations you wish -- it only makes the paucity of your actual contribution to the subject entirely clear.

But if you want to make a stab at acting like a mature grownup for a change, feel free to read post 1763. Then either try to explain how all those other electronics articles are "wrong" also (they must be, since they say what I've said, right?), or take a stab at answering the question at the end. There will be a quiz later, and you *will* be graded on your answers.

PLACEMARKER

If you know what I mean. Wink, wink. Hee hee.

Hey Mr Wizard, how many transistors are illustrated below?

I'll concede two points to you. First of all you are verbose, an indication of being full of crap. And second, you write like William Buckley speaks, sort of nasally.

What really must twist your panties however is that a blue collar guy like me is at a minimum your "intellectual" equal.

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