Electrical – Can you name this schematic symbol?

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What does this schematic symbol mean?

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Best Answer

This is a current source symbol.

It provides a constant current (whose value should be written next to the symbol), whatever the voltage across it. And basically, it's the opposite of a constant voltage source (ideal power supply).

Its meaning is not different from the usual symbol with a single circle.

Here are different symbols for current source: enter image description here Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ideal_current_source_symbols.svg

They all mean the same.

  • a is the usual US symbol.
  • b is a variant of a.
  • c is the DIN40700 symbol (german).
  • d is the usual european symbol.
  • e never saw that one before today, actually.

Your specific symbol is actually a mix of a and d. Half-US, half-european. A "melting pot" symbol, somehow.