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Electrical Connections

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What, exactly, is necessary to establish electrical continuity between…

DIY EE Lab - Setting Up a Home Electronics Lab

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To build the DIY electronics projects described in this textbook, you will need a small work area, a few tools, and some basic electronics supplies. This page describes the setup of a low-cost home electronics laboratory.

Electrical Connections

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What, exactly, is necessary to establish electrical continuity between…

Rules for Derivatives

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Constant rule Rule of sums Rule of differences Product rule Quotient…

“Ladder” Diagrams

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Ladder diagrams are specialized schematics commonly used to document…

What is the Relationship Between Conductance and Resistance?

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The concept and measurement units of resistance are most often used…

Connectors

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An electrical connector, is an electro-mechanical device used to join…

DIY EE Lab - Setting Up a Home Electronics Lab

Textbook

To build the DIY electronics projects described in this textbook, you will need a small work area, a few tools, and some basic electronics supplies. This page describes the setup of a low-cost home electronics laboratory.

A 50-Ohm Cable?

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Early in my explorations of electricity, I came across a length of…

The Antiderivative (Indefinite Integral)

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  Notice something important here: taking the derivative of f(x)…

Basic Troubleshooting Strategies

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A chandelier has five light bulbs in it, and one of them is not…

Wire Self Inductance Calculator

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This calculator will help compute the inductance of a length of wire.

AC Lab - Automotive Alternator as AC Generator

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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will use an automotive alternator to generate three-phase AC voltage and learn how alternators can function as both generators and motors.

Electromagnetic Induction

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While Oersted’s surprising discovery of electromagnetism paved…

Electromechanical Relay Logic

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In ladder logic symbolism, an electromechanical relay coil is shown as…

Permissive and Interlock Circuits

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A practical application of switch and relay logic is in control…

AC Lab - Signal and Noise Coupling

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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, power a DC motor through a multi-conductor cable to learn how AC signals are coupled between conductors and how to mitigate noise coupling.

Electrical Isolation

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SPICE analysis of Electrical Isolation Aside from the ability to…

Networks and Busses

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The wires between the tank and the monitoring location is  called…

Copper Wire Ampacity Table

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Ampacities of copper wire, in free air at 30o C: INSULATION TYPE…

Insulator Breakdown Voltage

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The atoms in insulating materials have very tightly-bound electrons,…

Intro Lab - Circuit With a Switch

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will control a light with a switch and learn the basics of connecting toggle (on/off) switches into circuits.

AC Lab - Using a Transformer to Build a 12 VAC Power Supply

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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a 12 V alternating current (AC) power supply using a step-down transformer and learn about transformer operation and the purpose of tapped windings.

Linear Computational Circuitry

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

JFET Amplifiers

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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

Converting Between Thevenin and Norton Equivalent Circuits

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Since Thevenin’s theorem and Norton’s theorems are two…

CMOS Logic Gates

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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…

Balanced Attenuator Calculator

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This balanced attenuator calculator helps you determine the resistor (R1) values for a balanced attenuator.

Basic Algebra and Graphing for Electric Circuits

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Many different equations used in the analysis of electric circuits may…

Capacitance, Reactance, and Admittance Calculator

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A calculator for solving the capacitance, reactance, and admittance of a capacitor.

High Voltage Ohmmeters

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Most ohmmeters of the design shown in the previous section utilize a…

Light-Pulse Switch

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It is fairly important to use large value resistors (10 MΩ works…

Ohm’s Law - How Voltage, Current, and Resistance Relate

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The first, and perhaps most important, relationship between current,…

Overcurrent Protection

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What hazards might be posed by a circuit with excessive current going…

Arc Flash and Arc Blast

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Electromechanical relays used to start and stop high-power electric…

Decibels

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The Bel is Used to Represent Gain In its simplest form, an…

Asymmetric Stripline Impedance Calculator

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This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of an asymmetric stripline

DC Metrology

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Define the following metrological terms: • Uncertainty • Accuracy…

Conventional Transistor Overview and Special Transistors

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A microcontroller is a specialized type of digital computer used to…

Basic Voltmeter Use

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What will this voltmeter register when connected to a battery as shown…

Analysis Options

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AC ANALYSIS: General form: .ac [curve] [points] [start] [final]…

Multiple-input Gates

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The Use of Logic Gate Inverters and buffers exhaust the possibilities…