In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build a simple circuit that will teach you how to use a commutating diode to reduce inductive kickback.
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The Q factor of a series inductive circuit is given by the following…
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Every meter impacts the circuit it is measuring to some extent, just…
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Electromechanical relays used to start and stop high-power electric…
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Generators used in battery-charging systems must be regulated so as to…
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We can construct a simple logic functions for our hypothetical lamp…
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Like its bipolar cousin, the field-effect transistor may be used as an…
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Another variation on a theme of bistable multivibrators is the J-K…
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What do you think this logic buffer gate will do, with the output…
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What is an Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT), and what…
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A switch is an electrical component that can “make” or…
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Complementary Output Gates It is sometimes desirable to have a logic…
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All About Contactors When a relay is used to switch a large amount of…
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Counting practice: count from zero to thirty-one in binary, octal, and…
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A bistable multivibrator has two stable states, as indicated by the…
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Every meter impacts the circuit it is measuring to some extent, just…
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As we saw with DC measurement circuits, the circuit configuration…
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Ladder diagrams are specialized schematics commonly used to document…
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In ladder logic symbolism, an electromechanical relay coil is shown as…
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Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…
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Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) uses digital signals to control power…
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The interlock contacts installed in the previous section’s motor…
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Complementary Output Gates It is sometimes desirable to have a logic…
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We’ve already seen one example of a monostable multivibrator in…
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Though it may seem strange to cover the elementary topic of electrical…
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Charles Proteus Steinmetz’s first job after arriving in America…
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Suppose you were to take a 3 kW electric heater rated for 240 VAC and…
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All About Diodes A diode is an electrical device allowing current to…
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Since three-phase is used so often for power distribution systems, it…
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We can construct a simple logic functions for our hypothetical lamp…
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A calculator for computing several parameters needed in the design of a flyback switch mode regulator
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“Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made…
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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What Is a R/2nR DAC Circuit? The R/2nR DAC circuit, otherwise known as…
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At first it may seem pointless to have the four buffer gates following…
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The following circuits are pre-tested netlists for SPICE 2g6, complete…
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In simple AC power systems, one of the two conductors is typically…
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Figure below shows a photodiode amplifier for measuring low levels of…
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At the beginning of this chapter, it illustrates how transistors could…
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Let’s begin with a semiconductor gate circuit in need of…
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The first, and perhaps most important, relationship between current,…
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Certain substances are known to physically deform (shorten or…
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As we’ve seen, negative feedback is an incredibly useful…
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The following is a partial list of contributors to the current online…
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Both soldering irons and soldering guns are tools used in the process…
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Anyone who’s studied geometry should be familiar with the…
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What factors determine where potentiometers Rpot1 and Rpot2 must be…
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As was previously mentioned, we need more than just a continuous path…
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How to Create Band-pass Filter There are applications where a…
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