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AC Commutator Motors

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Charles Proteus Steinmetz’s first job after arriving in America…

Motor Control Circuits

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

Design Project: DC Motor

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The armature windings of your DC motor will have very low resistance.…

Tube Lab - Vacuum Tube Audio Amplifier

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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.

DC Motor Theory

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If the ends of a wire loop are attached to two half-circular metal…

Inductive Reactance

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

Single-phase Induction Motors

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A three-phase motor may be run from a single-phase power source.…

Reluctance Motor

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The variable reluctance motor is based on the principle that an…

Intermediate Electromagnetism and Electromagnetic Induction

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As an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, it creates a…

Microcontroller Principles

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Read the following quotation, and then research the term…

Other Specialized Motors

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Shaded Pole Induction Motor An easy way to provide starting torque to…

AC Lab - Large Induction Motor

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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.

AC Motor Control Circuits

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Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…

Torque Conversion Calculator

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A tool designed to convert between units of torque

Tesla Polyphase Induction Motors

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Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…

DC Motor Control Circuits

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How is it possible to electrically measure the torque output by a…

Stepper Motors

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Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…

Contactors

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All About Contactors When a relay is used to switch a large amount of…

Synchronous Motors

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Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…

Polyphase Motor Design

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AC Motors Perhaps the most important benefit of polyphase AC power…

AC Instrumentation Transducers

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Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…

Time Constant Calculations

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

The Common-source Amplifier (JFET)

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Negative Feedback

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If we connect the output of an op-amp to its inverting input and apply…

Current Divider Circuits

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

The Thyristor

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A thyristor is a device that has a number of unusual characteristics.…

Wire Over Plane Inductance Calculator

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

The Instrumentation Amplifier

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What Is an Instrumentation Amplifier? An instrumentation amplifier…

Precise Diode Circuits

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

Introduction to Operational Amplifiers (Op-amps)

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What is an Operational Amplifier (Op-amp)? Operational Amplifiers,…

Introduction to Electron Tubes

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An often neglected area of study in modern electronics is that of…

Electron Tubes

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Cathode:   This is the electrode that is heated and emits the…

Applications of Resonance

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So far, the phenomenon of resonance appears to be a useless curiosity,…

Battery Construction

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The word battery simply means a group of similar components. In…

Capacitors

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Identify some of the different types of capacitors, and their…

Other Specialized Motors

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Shaded Pole Induction Motor An easy way to provide starting torque to…

Broadside Coupled Trace Inductance Calculator

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This calculator helps you compute the inductance of a broadside coupled trace.

Temperature Coefficient of Resistance

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You might have noticed on the table for specific resistances that all…

Systems of Numeration

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

Wires and Connections

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Older electrical schematics showed connecting wires crossing, while…

Ionization (gas-filled) Tubes

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So far, we’ve explored tubes which are totally…