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1M resistor
Jumper Wire
is why when the voltage is LOW or 0V at the gate, the jumper wire will be HIGH at the value of
VCC.
Now, the opposite scenario, when enough voltage is fed into the gate, a HIGH voltage, then this is
enough to power on the transistor. The transistor can now conduct current across from the drain to
source. Now the voltage is no longer concentrated across the resistor. It's concentrates mostly on
the transistor. So as you increase the voltage going into the gate, it allows a greater current to flow
through. The voltage at the output jumper wire decreases. Now there will be a LOW voltage at the
output jumper pin.
The resistor at the drain terminal functions as a pull-up resistor. It pulls the voltage at the drain
terminal up to VCC. So whatever voltage VCC is at, the resistor will contain when a LOW voltage
signal or no voltage is fed into the gate.
If we give VCC a voltage of 12V and have 0V at the gate of the transistor, then there will be about
6V at the output pin. As we turn up the voltage at the gate from 0V to a hgiher voltage, then the
voltage at the output pin falls. If we increase the voltage at the gate to about 6V, half of VCC, then
the voltage at the output pin falls to less than 1V, about 0.6V. So you can see the dramatic
difference in voltage output from when the gate is 0V (OFF or LOW) to when the gate voltage is 6V.
The voltage output goes from 6V to 0.6V. If we add a switch to the gate of the transistor with 6V
feeding it, while 12V is feeding the drain, the it really functions as an inverter, with an output of 6V
when the gate voltage is 0V and an output of 0.6V when the gate voltage is 6V.
You could then feed this output pin into any device that can read or use the voltage such as a
voltage comparator or a logic IC.
And this is how an inverter can be built with a MOSFET transistor.