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Re: A vaguely useful circuit

Date 2025-10-19 21:53 -0400
Subject Re: A vaguely useful circuit
Newsgroups sci.electronics.design
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From bitrex <user@example.net>
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On 10/19/2025 8:07 PM, john larkin wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Oct 2025 19:41:46 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
> 
>>
>> You can sink a current to ground, and split it in two, one copy sinking
>>from loads above ground and one copy sourcing to loads below ground. The 
>> ratio of R3 to R2 controls the split fraction. Or tie the top of R3 to
>> ground to make them equal.
>>
>> I think trying to do something similar with multiple complimentary
>> mirrors outside of an IC is inaccurate and kinda ugly..
> 
> It's not especially accurate. Given a perfect current source to start,
> why not connect the load resistors directly to it?
> 
> 
> John Larkin
> Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
> Lunatic Fringe Electronics

Well then you'd just have a source and not a source and a sink, it's 
hard to source current into a load referenced to the positive supply..

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A vaguely useful circuit bitrex <user@example.net> - 2025-10-19 19:41 -0400
  Re: A vaguely useful circuit john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2025-10-19 17:07 -0700
    Re: A vaguely useful circuit bitrex <user@example.net> - 2025-10-19 21:53 -0400
      Re: A vaguely useful circuit john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2025-10-19 21:12 -0700
        Re: A vaguely useful circuit bitrex <user@example.net> - 2025-10-20 03:17 -0400

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