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Since NTC thermistors have a higher impedance initially at startup, they do limit current inrush
Having known the property of a thermistor, you can use it anywhere you please to
Then doesn't it make sense to connect an NTC thermistor in series with the input of a power supply to prevent a high inrush current when the main filter capacitors charge?
Obviously, the thermistor does not limit a current surge, it is used as a temperature sensor. Frequently a diode or a transistor junction is used as a temperature sensor to keep a power transistor from having thermal runaway because it changes exactly the same as the power transistor that is trying to increase its current when it gets hot which causes it to increase its current more which causes it to get hotter which causes more current which causes more heat which causes more current which causes more heat ......Mostly i have seen thermistors screwed down on a heatsink of power transistors
The Thermistors are in series with the power amps, power transistors to detect something
The Thermistors are connected to a current sensing circuit in the power amp?
See how thermal runaway is caused then look at a schematic to see how a diode is connected to the power transistor to prevent it?
I have never seen a diode across the emitter to collector of a power transistor
The diode is reverse-biased so it never conducts and does nothing.But what would you think that diode does? and why would they use a diode like this only for a Darlington Transistor?
It balances or stabilizes the darlington transistors output?
The diode is reverse-biased so it never conducts and does nothing.
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