Phase inverter question...

[g1]

Of course it's purely semantics.

Yes.
Much of what I said about avoiding confusion is also about consistency. I can't speak about other's education/training, but in my background it was hammered in that AC 'has no polarity', even at times stated as a fundamental difference between AC and DC. Rightly or wrongly, as I fully understand that AC has relative polarity and is constantly reversing.
But to be consistent, we call it 'flipping phase'.
When someone says they wired up a speaker cab and the bass is lacking, we say 'maybe the speakers are out of phase'. When someone's amp build (or OT replacement) is howling we tell them the OT may have it's phase reversed, giving positive feedback instead of NFB.

In my opinion the use of the term 'splitter' is more problematic. If we always said 'inverter' it is clear whether we call it phase or polarity. How do you 'split' phase?

[xtian]

This is fun. Now let's discuss vibrato vs tremolo.

[Helmholtz]

This is fun. Now let's discuss vibrato vs tremolo.

That's simple (but doesn't belong here):

By definition vibrato means frequency (or pitch if you like) modulation and tremolo means amplitude (or level) modulation.

Especially Fender often confused the terms.

[Helmholtz]

In my opinion the use of the term 'splitter' is more problematic. If we always said 'inverter' it is clear whether we call it phase or polarity. How do you 'split' phase?

Agree and corrected my proposal above into "signal polarity inverter" .

But any (grounded cathode) gain stage could also be called a "phase/polarity inverter".
What is missing is that a PI provides two opposite phase/polarity output signals, so somehow splits the signal into two (hence phase splitter?).

Phase splitter is an English term that has no correspondence in German.
Our "Phasenumkehrstufe" directly translates into phase inverter stage.

I still think that "phase inverter" is somewhat problematic.
What exactly does phase mean here?
I think the term is ambiguous.

I studied some maths (2 years) and learned that phase is the argument of a trigonometric function (sine, cosine etc.)
So for a continuous signal the phase constantly increases with time..

Above I showed that reversing the phase of a sine also reverses polarity.
But that doesn't always hold, e.g. reversing the phase of a cosine does not reverse polarity as cos(-x) = cos(x).
So I think "polarity inverter" would be more explicit.

It's just my humble personal opinion, so be cool.

I do like to encourage posters to think out of the box.

[The Dude]

That's simple (but doesn't belong here):

By definition vibrato means frequency (or pitch if you like) modulation and tremolo means amplitude (or level) modulation.

Especially Fender often confused the terms.

I think he was joking at the hair splitting that's going on in the thread. I could be wrong.

[eschertron]

A friend of mine shared with me some really bad, obviously A.I. written "articles", and one of them was about phase inverters.
This is hilarious, hold on to your seat...
https://www.fuelrocks.com/what-is-a-...er-guitar-amp/

I wish I could get paid to write the same sentence (whether or not it is accurate or makes any sense) over and over again...

[The Dude]

......A friend of mine shared with me some really bad, obviously A.I. written "articles", and one of them was about phase inverters.
This is hilarious, hold on to your seat...
https://www.fuelrocks.com/what-is-a-...er-guitar-amp/......

That is some funny shi+!

[g1]

Our "Phasenumkehrstufe" directly translates into phase inverter.

I was meaning to ask what the German term was. I thought it would be bigger.

[g1]

A friend of mine shared with me some really bad, obviously A.I. written "articles", and one of them was about phase inverters.
This is hilarious, hold on to your seat...
https://www.fuelrocks.com/what-is-a-...er-guitar-amp/

I'm pretty sure this says that we can power our homes (or business) by playing guitar. Just as I suspected.

[Greg_L]

I wish I could get paid to write the same sentence (whether or not it is accurate or makes any sense) over and over again...

I don't think you have to pay bots!

[Greg_L]

I'm pretty sure this says that we can power our homes (or business) by playing guitar. Just as I suspected.

I'm sitting in a room with eight 50 and 100w Marshall heads. If I could turn their sound energy into electrical energy they probably could run my house.

[Helmholtz]

I was meaning to ask what the German term was. I thought it would be bigger.

What's funny with your wrong assumption?

(Phasen= phase, -umkehr = inverter, -stufe = stage-).

[pdf64]

Technical terms in German often seem to be quite long. eg multi language manuals sometimes need more pages for the German section than English etc.

[Helmholtz]

Technical terms in German often seem to be quite long. eg multi language manuals sometimes need more pages for the German section than English etc.

Yes, English is simpler and shorter. Good for me as it makes learning English easy .

[g1]

Technical terms in German often seem to be quite long. eg multi language manuals sometimes need more pages for the German section than English etc.

That's what I meant. Helmholtz the German term you gave has the same number of syllables as the English term. That surprised me a bit. I think German terminology is usually much more descriptive and exacting. My Dad can speak it but I don't. He sometimes jokes about very long words that are translations for shorter English versions.