
| The PNP transistor
is upside down with respect the NPN transistor and thus has the correct
operating voltages.
If the circuit is designed so that the PNP collector voltage is a suitable value for the NPN transistor base, then there is no need for bias resistors for the NPN transistor. The circuit will
amplify dc signals as well as ac ones. This is because there is no coupling
capacitor to block dc.
However, if temperature
changes cause dc drift in the first transistor, then these will be amplified
by the second transistor and change its normal operating voltages.
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