19 Jan
2010
19 Jan
'10
12:41 p.m.
On 19 Jan 2010 at 10:15, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
On Tuesday 19 January 2010, Christian Corti wrote:
Must be a EE cultural thing. I think "A DIAC is a type of
thyristor...", I should check my old GE databook and see what, if
any, distinction is made.
This reminds me of my introduction to Hoosier English as she is spoke
outside of the Calumet Region. At my first meal at Purdue, I asked
the guy tending the steam table for some of the "string beans". "We
don't have string beans; those is green beans." Actually, he said
"strang" rather than "string", and yes--he really did say "those
is".
I learned to adapt---and developed a taste for onion rangs and
learned that "grits" has two syllables.
Cheers,
Chuck
No! A thyristor is a semiconductor version of a
thyratron. A triac
is something different and has *never* been called a thyristor even
though it may be seen as two anti-parallel thyristors (which is not
correct).
Yes! It appears that some people on this list call a Triac a
thyristor, and it's in use elsewhere too:
http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/vol_3/chpt_7/6.html