I understand what they do: gain the gain, so to speak. But presumably there are technical reasons that a transistor of "Darlingtonian gains" cannot be made made to provide that gain in one pass? If so I'd be interested to hear why that is so. Words of one syllable, please.... 8)

sorted... Why have Darlingtons?

JimboZA January 17, 2013, 1:21pm 4

Ah ok, so they're basically superseded.

Thanks.