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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build a multiple LED flasher and learn how to use inductive flyback to generate a voltage pulse that is greater than the supply voltage.
As an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, it creates a…
The armature windings of your DC motor will have very low resistance.…
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If the ends of a wire loop are attached to two half-circular metal…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a large AC permanent capacitor split-phase induction motor and learn the principles of AC induction motor function.
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A calculator for computing several parameters needed in the design of a flyback switch mode regulator
A tool designed to convert between units of torque
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In this hands-on introduction to electronics, you will experiment with a multimeter and learn how to measure voltage using the voltmeter function.
Single phase power system schematic diagram shows little about the…
What would happen to this meter movement, if connected directly to a…
It used to be with large AC power systems that “power…
With the notable exception of calculations for power (P), all AC…
This calculator determines the total path loss provided by an RF n-way power splitter.
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The node voltage method of DC network analysis solves for unknown…
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As was stated in the last chapter, there is more than one type of…
The armature windings of your DC motor will have very low resistance.…
Determine if the light bulb will de-energize for each of the following…
A serial-in, parallel-out shift register is similar to the serial-in,…
This page will walk you step-by-step through the process of…
What is an Encoder? An encoder is a circuit that changes a set of…
This tool is designed to calculate the inductance of two parallel wires
In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, build an astable multivibrator (oscillator) circuit that provides an output in the audio frequency range and learn the effect of component values and supply voltage on oscillation frequency.
The Bel is Used to Represent Gain In its simplest form, an…
This calculator helps you compute for the inductance of an edge coupled trace.