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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.

Specific Resistance

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Designing Wire Resistance Conductor ampacity rating is a crude…

“Ladder” Diagrams

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Ladder diagrams are specialized schematics commonly used to document…

Switch Contact Design

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A switch can be constructed with any mechanism bringing two conductors…

Speed Distance Time Calculator

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This calculator will solve for either distance, time, or speed given two of the three parameters.

Common Sources of Hazard

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Of course, there is a danger of electrical shock when directly…

Basic Troubleshooting Strategies

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

Wire Over Plane Inductance Calculator

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This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a wire-over-plane setup.

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.

Electrical Signal Types

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With BogusBus, our signals were very simple and straightforward: each…

Insulator Breakdown Voltage

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

Antiderivatives of Power Functions of e

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  Note: this is a very unique and useful property of e. As in…

Wire Types and Sizes

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Most electrical wire is covered in a rubber or plastic coating called…

Wires and Connections

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Older electrical schematics showed connecting wires crossing, while…

Rules for Derivatives

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

Three-phase Y and Delta Configurations

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Three-phase Wye(Y) Connection Initially, we explored the idea of…

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.

Conductors and Insulators

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Given two lengths of metal wire, which one will have the least…

Wire Loop Inductance Calculator

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This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a wire loop.

Contact “Normal” State and Make/Break Sequence

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Any kind of switch contact can be designed so that the contacts…

Contact “Bounce”

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When a switch is actuated and contacts touch one another under the…

Switched Capacitor Circuitry

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Write an equation describing the precise mathematical relationship…

Voltage Signal Systems

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The use of variable voltage for instrumentation signals seems a rather…

Factors Affecting Inductance

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There are four basic factors of inductor construction determining the…

Early Tube History

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Thomas Edison, that prolific American inventor, is often credited with…

555 Lab - Oscillator With Hysteresis

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an oscillator with hysteresis from a Schmitt trigger and learn how to use it to create an RC oscillator and a method to configure a 555 timer as an astable multivibrator.

Switch Types

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Though it may seem strange to cover the elementary topic of electrical…

Motor Control Circuits

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The interlock contacts installed in the previous section’s motor…

Introduction to Insulated-gate Field-effect Transistors

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As was stated in the last chapter, there is more than one type of…

Systems of Numeration

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Roman Numerals The Romans devised a system that was a substantial…

Series Circuit Rules

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Current Components in a series circuit share the same current: Itotal…

Building Resistor Circuits Using Breadboards, Perfboards, and Terminal Strips

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Over the course of learning about electricity, you will want to…

Special Diodes

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

Series-parallel R, L, and C

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Now that we’ve seen how series and parallel AC circuit analysis…

DC Lab - Rheostat Range Limiting

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will use series and parallel resistor networks to precisely adjust the range and zero point of a rheostat.

Elementary Amplifier Theory

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Fundamentally, an amplifier is a device that takes in a low-power…

Right Triangle Trigonometry

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  A right triangle is defined as having one angle precisely…

Digital Logic Functions

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We can construct a simple logic functions for our hypothetical lamp…

Introduction to Shift Registers

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Shift registers, like counters, are a form of sequential logic.…

Radio Circuits

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(a) Crystal radio. (b) Modulated RF at antenna. (c) Rectified RF at…

Sum and Product Notation

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For reference, this section introduces the terminology used in some…