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Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…
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Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…
The armature windings of your DC motor will have very low resistance.…
Explain the operation of this “H-bridge” motor control circuit: At…
A chandelier has five light bulbs in it, and one of them is not…
PARTS AND MATERIALS AC power source: 120VAC Capacitor, 3.3 µF…
Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…
All About Contactors When a relay is used to switch a large amount of…
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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A tool designed to calculate the maximum speed, minimum time per step and maximum power of a stepper motor
After the introduction of the DC electrical distribution system by…
As an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, it creates a…
A very useful tool for observing rotating objects is a strobe light.…
How is it possible to electrically measure the torque output by a…
At first it may seem pointless to have the four buffer gates following…
Capacitors, like all electrical components, have limitations that must…
Any kind of switch contact can be designed so that the contacts…
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A calculator for computing several parameters needed in the design of a flyback switch mode regulator
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
The manufacture of only silicon based semiconductors is described…
Diodes can perform switching and digital logic operations. Forward and…
SCRs are unidirectional (one-way) current devices, making them useful…
PARTS AND MATERIALS 6 volt battery Power transformer, 120VAC step-down…
Superconducting devices, though not widely used, have some unique…
PARTS AND MATERIALS 6-volt battery Electromagnet made from experiment…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
This tool calculates the dimensions of the microstrip patch antenna given the desired operating frequency.
This calculator computes for the capacitor charge time and energy, given the supply voltage and the added series resistance.
We can construct a simple logic functions for our hypothetical lamp…
Show how this ammeter would be connected to the light bulb circuit to…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
The earliest forms of digital data storage involving moving parts was…
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So far, we’ve only been able to escape the sheer volume of…
