Phil Allison wrote:

"Jerry Peters"
Phil Allison

"Jerry Peters"

An active device uses one signal [current, voltage] to control another.

So a relay is an active device?


** Trying to define a word or term *out of context* is doomed to failure.

It's called reductio ad absurdum, it's a rhetorical technique Phil.


** I figured you were being facetious.

I was actually trying to get dave to *think*, but he doesn't seem to
be capable of it. It's much like the definition of a word, there can
be multiple, sometimes even contradictory meanings, and also
implications or overtones to a particular word choice.


But YOU failed to see the discussion is only about "electronic devices" .

Which relays are not.

If he gets to define what an active or passive device is *I* can
define what an "electronic" device is.

WHat about a magnetic amplifier?