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  • Now that I've built your newer (2313) version and your older analog one (555+4017), I'd love to better understand why the transistors are helpful.  The output from the 4017 pin is passed through a 47k resistor to the base of a 3904, which is also co…
    in Three Fives + Larson Comment by markmoran August 2014
  • Wow!  Thanks so much for the quick and detailed reply.  I've never seen an x-ray of an electronic component and find them strangely pretty, especially the TLC555.  I had no idea the actual "goods" inside a discrete transistor were such a tiny portio…
    in Maximum Current for Discrete 741 & 555 Comment by markmoran August 2014