Timeline for Do phototriac optoisolators (e.g. MOC3021) require pulse trains?
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| Dec 9, 2017 at 17:33 | comment | added | Spehro 'speff' Pefhany | @JackCreasey Someone scanned it, nice. I still have my original but the cover has fallen off it so I can't see the year. '72 likely. | |
| Dec 9, 2017 at 17:23 | comment | added | Jack Creasey | It's interesting to actually look at the roots of the TRIAC, back in GE SCR Manual (1972): ia600209.us.archive.org/14/items/GESCRManual1964/… They capitalize SCR, LASCR, and THYRISTOR (but use Thyristor and thyristor). They use Thyristor mostly, but introduce Triac (and triac) in the text. ....I'm not sure this introduces any convention, but is what you'd expect in what is simply a series of collected papers. | |
| Dec 9, 2017 at 16:49 | comment | added | Jack Creasey | You'll have to alter much more than the Wiki.style manual ....it's in dozens of Manual of Style's. However I do agree you see both capitalized and non-capitalized. | |
| Dec 9, 2017 at 6:49 | comment | added | Spehro 'speff' Pefhany | @JackCreasey No, it should not be, and the Wikipedia entry should be corrected. General Electric (inventors of the triac) referred to it as such in their bible (GE SCR Manual) and subsequent makers have generally observed the convention. Should we use TRANSISTOR because it was formed from TRANsconductance +varISTOR? | |
| Dec 9, 2017 at 6:24 | comment | added | Jack Creasey | TRIAC is an acronym for Triode for Alternating Current and like DIAC (Diode for Alternating Current) should be capitalized. | |
| Dec 9, 2017 at 5:26 | history | edited | Spehro 'speff' Pefhany | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 9, 2017 at 4:35 | history | answered | Spehro 'speff' Pefhany | CC BY-SA 3.0 |