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.
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Ladder diagrams are specialized schematics commonly used to document…
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Since three-phase is used so often for power distribution systems, it…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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All About Contactors When a relay is used to switch a large amount of…
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Any kind of switch contact can be designed so that the contacts…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an audio amplifier using a vacuum tube (triode) and learn about voltage transformers, how to build a high-voltage DC power supply, and how to use a transformer for impedance matching.
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What do you think this logic buffer gate will do, with the output…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a digital combination lock with LED output indicators and learn about XOR gate functionality and how to implement NOR logic functionality using diodes.
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Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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AC Motors Perhaps the most important benefit of polyphase AC power…
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Charles Proteus Steinmetz’s first job after arriving in America…
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In ladder logic symbolism, an electromechanical relay coil is shown as…
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Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…
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A three-phase motor may be run from a single-phase power source.…
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Normally, the ampacity rating of a conductor is a circuit design…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a simple transformer and learn some important transformer fundamentals including voltage step-up and step-down.
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Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will use a potentiometer as a variable resistor to control the speed of a motor and learn how to connect a potentiometer as a rheostat.
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When a switch is actuated and contacts touch one another under the…
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Point-to-Point Connecting two digital devices with a network, would…
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In this motor control circuit, how would you ensure that there is no…
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Phase shift oscillator. R1C1, R2C2, and R3C3 each provide 60° of…
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Our exploration of thyristors begins with a device called the…
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A very useful tool for observing rotating objects is a strobe light.…
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Convert between Celsius, Fahrenheit and Kelvin
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In power distribution systems, it is very important to be able to…
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The field effect transistor was proposed by Julius Lilienfeld in US…
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This calculator computes the inductance of a microstrip etched on a PCB.
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This page will walk you step-by-step through the process of…
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A practical application of switch and relay logic is in control…
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SCRs are unidirectional (one-way) current devices, making them useful…
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This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a wire loop.
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For extremely high-frequency applications (above 1 GHz), the…
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The electrons of different types of atoms have different degrees of…
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Suppose I were about to measure an unknown voltage with a manual-range…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a resistive voltage divider and observe how Ohm's law and Kirchhoff's voltage law (KVL) function in real circuits using a voltmeter and an ammeter.
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The jobs of electronics engineers and technicians frequently entail…
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It has been found that any repeating, non-sinusoidal waveform can be…
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How to Create Band-pass Filter There are applications where a…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will examine the heat generated by resistors and maybe even make one smoke! Also, learn to calculate power dissipation using Joule's law and resistor power ratings.
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Note that the direction of the arrow at the gate indicates the…
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Most of us have experienced some form of electric “shock,”…
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What is Attenuators? Attenuators are passive devices. It is…
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Constant Rule Rule of Sums Rule of…
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There are three basic factors of capacitor construction determining…
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The circuit in the previous section is not a very practical one. In…
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What is a harmonic frequency? If an oscillator circuit outputs a…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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With BogusBus, our signals were very simple and straightforward: each…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a battery-operated circuit with a light and learn about open and short circuit failures.
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When a PCB designer speaks of dimensions in thous or mils, what does…
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To express a quantity in a different metric prefix from how it was…
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What is an Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT), and what…
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Although transistor switching circuits operate without bias, it is…
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Consider a circuit for a single-phase AC power system, where a 120…
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This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a broadside coupled trace.
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This tool is designed to calculate cross-talk coefficient and coupled voltage for a microstrip.
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Parametric data for all semiconductor op-amp models except the CA3130…
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