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(#0093) World's Simplest Single Transistor Oscillator - BJT with Negative Resistance

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Cited to explain how a transistor driven into breakdown shows negative resistance and can be made to blink an LED as a simple oscillator.

Watch for: Unusual circuit, not how transistors are normally switched

In their words

See this video for some more discussion of what's happening:

Glenn Willen on electronics.stackexchange.com, Sept 2018. CC BY-SA.

See this: [video] Here he uses this breakdown voltaje to make an oscillator and shows the curve in Curve Tracer instrument.

user296760 on electronics.stackexchange.com, Mar 2019. CC BY-SA.

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