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Wed 7 Jun, 2017 03:49 pm
Conventional Current assumes that current flows out of the positive terminal, through the circuit and into the negative terminal of the source.
Electron Flow is what actually happens and electrons flow out of the negative terminal, through the circuit and into the positive terminal of the source.
Just because things have once been accepted as right and later to be incorrect, doesn't mean we should continue to use it because of certain practices were it's still applied. For then what is the point in studying and learning if we're going to continue practicing and teaching falsehoods?
@Jaynvs,
I don't get your point. What do you mean by "practicing and teaching falsehoods"?
Everyone teaches that electrons flow from negative to positive... my daughter learned that electrons have a negative charge in 6th grade. As long as you teach this, than nothing is incorrect.
@Jaynvs,
Lots of upper level engineering books use the positive conventional flow. Tech books use the negative flow. Just something you have to get used to.
You can't study the working of vacuum tubes for very long without noticing that they depend on the fact that electrons are emitted by the cathode (negative electrode) and absorbed by the anode (positive electrode).
@centrox,
Are you a tube audio fan?
@Blickers,
Blickers wrote:Are you a tube audio fan?
Not especially. I am interested in hi-fi but I don't believe a lot of the hocus-pocus stuff that some people do - you know, magic cables, etc, I call them 'audiphools'. I can't really say I prefer a 'tube sound' or even know what it sounds like, and I have 50 years of experience. I started learning about electronics in the 1960s and got keen on tube radios and stereo gear, but all my equipment is solid state these days. Having said that, I like tube equipment for its looks.
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