[null and void]

Nope. I've done a total of about 30 hours of electronics engineering in the last 30 years. (Shoulda studied ME) My education/experience is so stale, my inputs would be suspect.

[AndrewC]

Nope. I've done a total of about 30 hours of electronics engineering in the last 30 years.

Well, your honesty and integrity cannot be challenged.

[AndrewC]

Using your background, can you tell me where one can find a 9.4115K resistor? Or how difficult it would be to fabricate?

[jwalsh07]

I've done a total of about 30 hours of electronics engineering in the last 30 years

Even so, you must know claims that a transistor "is in a sense two diodes tied back to back" clearly misses the mark and establishes the claimee as dabbling outside his field of expertise.