Charles Proteus Steinmetz’s first job after arriving in America…
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Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…
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After the introduction of the DC electrical distribution system by…
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A tool designed to convert between units of torque
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Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…
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Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
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Shaded Pole Induction Motor An easy way to provide starting torque to…
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If the ends of a wire loop are attached to two half-circular metal…
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At first it may seem pointless to have the four buffer gates following…
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As an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, it creates a…
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Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…
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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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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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All About Contactors When a relay is used to switch a large amount of…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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A calculator for computing several parameters needed in the design of a flyback switch mode regulator
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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 mathematically…
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Explain the operation of this “H-bridge” motor control circuit: At…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a simple AC permanent capacitor split-phase induction motor and learn the principles of AC induction motor function.
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This calculator will help compute the inductance of a length of wire.
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AC Motors Perhaps the most important benefit of polyphase AC power…
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A wound rotor induction motor has a stator like a squirrel cage…
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A multiplexer, abbreviated mux, is a device that has multiple inputs…
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Ladder diagrams are specialized schematics commonly used to document…
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Current Components in a series circuit share the same current: Itotal…
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In essence, the IGFET controls the base current of a BJT, which…
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A meter is any device built to accurately detect and display an…
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What is the purpose of a seven-segment decoder circuit? What is a…
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Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a variable conductor and learn the impact of a metal core placed inside an inductor coil has on the inductance.
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This calculator allows you to solve for any of the six variables in the Friis formula for RF transmission: transmitter power, transmitter gain, receiver power, receiver gain, frequency, or distance.
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As opposed to normal equations where the solution is a number, a…
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Voltage Components in a parallel circuit share the same voltage:…
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The circuits in the figure below are known as clampers or DC…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build an analog differentiator circuit that outputs a signal proportional to the rate-of-change and learn about one of the advantages of analog circuits.
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The peak voltage calculator calculates peak voltage values from the peak-to-peak voltage, RMS voltage, or average voltage.
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Perhaps the most important consideration of an ADC is its resolution.…
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