A chandelier has five light bulbs in it, and one of them is not…
Read the following quotation, and then research the term…
Charles Proteus Steinmetz’s first job after arriving in America…
The armature windings of your DC motor will have very low resistance.…
AC Motors Perhaps the most important benefit of polyphase AC power…
The SPICE circuit simulation program provides for modeling diodes in…
PARTS AND MATERIALS AC power source: 120VAC Capacitor, 3.3 µF…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…
What does the acronym RF stand form, in reference to radio-related…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
PARTS AND MATERIALS One 12AX7 dual triode vacuum tube Two power…
Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…
In simple AC power systems, one of the two conductors is typically…
As an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, it creates a…
It is sometimes said regarding electrical safety that, Ït’s not the…
After applying some of the general troubleshooting tips to narrow the…
With this lesson, I hope to avoid a common mistake found in…
A microcontroller is a specialized type of digital computer used to…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
Thyristors are a broad classification of bipolar-conducting…
In simple AC power systems, one of the two conductors is typically…
When someone mentions the word “computer,” a digital…
Mercury Standard Cell Back in the early days of electrical measurement…
Instantaneous Values in AC Circuits Pure resistive AC circuit:…
An ideal transistor would show 0% distortion in amplifying a signal.…
This tool is designed to compute for the trace width of a microstrip
Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…
The circuit in the previous section is not a very practical one. In…
PARTS AND MATERIALS 4017 decade counter/divider (Radio Shack catalog…
A special type of relay is one that monitors the current, voltage,…
The Programmable Logic Controller, or PLC, was invented in the late…
“All men are liable to error;” —John Locke Whereas…
Because the relationship between voltage, current, and resistance in…
As lengthy as this chapter has been up to this point, it only begins…
Things start to get complicated when we need to relate two or more AC…
Computerized Fourier analysis, particularly in the form of the FFT…
Solving for x in a given polynomial equation “ax2 + bx + c…
When we store information in some kind of circuit or device, we not…
