In Reply to: RE: You sure about "most"? posted by Tre' on August 21, 2020 at 11:13:16:
No, it wasn't considered wrong back in the day. That was the standard....convention. :)
Nowadays we consider electrons to be the current carriers in an electrical system and thus current flows from negative to positive. But, this depends upon us defining the current carriers as electrons....or even what we define a "carrier" is.
There a number of different ways to think about this.
Some old-timers in the semiconductor industry still consider hole-flow to be the proper way to define current direction. And, hole-flow is from positive to negative. Another one for you to chew on. :)
Regards your other post.....you still seem to be entrenched in the idea that the terminal supplying the electrons is the "active" (or whatever you want to call it) terminal. If that's the way you were taught in electronics class, then that's the way you were taught. If you need to think about that way to grasp it, fine and dandy.
Cheers,
Dave.
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