m is for mosfet
connie the MOSFET helps hans use a small electrical signal to switch a larger current.
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0:01[unclear opening audio]
0:31Hi Hans, what are you doing?
0:35Hi Connie, well as you know I am a 555 timer IC,
0:41so I'm pretty good at sending out pulses
0:43of electricity in perfect time.
0:47Normally I can blink an LED just fine, but for some reason I can't make this high
0:52power LED flash.
0:54Oh, you probably just need to give it a little more electrical current.
0:59Hmm, you may be right. But I can only supply a bit of current from my pins here.
1:05My integrated circuit was not designed for driving a lot of current.
1:10Well, you're mighty lucky I came along. I can help you.
1:14Really? How?
1:16I may be small, but I'm pretty strong.
1:20I can push and pull ten times as much current as you can,
1:23and manage enough power to light this big LED.
1:26I just need you to tell me when to turn it on.
1:29Oh? How do I do that?
1:32Just grab my hand, like this.
1:44So now, you just keep sending electrical pulses through your output pin like you
1:49were doing before.
1:50My other pin is connected to the positive leg of the LED, and all three of us are
1:55connected to ground.
1:56Whenever you send an electrical pulse to my left pin, I'll know you want me to do
2:00the same on my right pin.
2:02What I mean to say is, when you turn your pin on, I'll turn the high power to the
2:07LED on.
2:08And when you turn your pin off, I'll turn power to the LED off.
2:12You ready?
2:13Okay, yeah. Let's give it a go.
2:17It's working!
2:19Connie, you are very strong.
2:22Just doing my job. I'm a MOSFET.
2:26You have a mossy feet. What in the wide world of sports is that?
2:30Oh, no, Hans, a MOSFET.
2:33That stands for metal oxide field effect transistor.
2:37I can take weak electrical signals and strengthen them.
2:41Those small signals can then control much larger amounts of current.
2:45I use three connections to make that happen.
2:48My source pin connects to the source electrons I want to control the flow of,
2:52you know, such as ground or negative connection on a power supply.
2:57My drain pin connects to positive power.
3:00And my gate pin connects to the signal,
3:03which tells me when to turn the higher current connection on or off.
3:08so you empower smaller electrical signals to make them bigger
3:14that's true you know some folks
3:18even call me an amplifier Connie the amplifying MOSFET
3:23sounds like a superhero thanks Hans
3:27well i told Cappy i'd meet him at an audio circuit around 2 30
3:33he wants help to make his
3:35stereo speaker louder. So how long do we have to flash this
3:40LED for? Oh, just like another 400,000
3:45milliseconds. So you should be fine. Oh, okay.
4:13I'll see you next time.