An electronic switch formed from alternating P and N layers of silicon.
(very roughly similar to a transistor)
-jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Worby" <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [OM] Re: OM3 flash with no batteries????
>
> Piers Hemy wrote:
>
> >>> Silicon Controlled Rectifier, nowadays 'colloquially' termed
> Thyristor
> >> Like the bit in the "O"lympus on the T20/32?
> > No, that sensor is not a thyristor.
>
> What is it, then?
>
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