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AC Commutator Motors

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

Introduction to AC Motors

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After the introduction of the DC electrical distribution system by…

Reluctance Motor

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

DC Generator Theory

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Generators used in battery-charging systems must be regulated so as to…

555 Lab - LED Flasher with Inductive Flyback

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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.

Intermediate Electromagnetism and Electromagnetic Induction

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

Design Project: DC Motor

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

Design Project: Stepper Motor Driver

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At first it may seem pointless to have the four buffer gates following…

DC Motor Theory

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

Synchronous Motors

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Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…

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.

Electric Shock

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It is sometimes said regarding electrical safety that, Ït’s not the…

AC Instrumentation Transducers

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

AC Commutator Motors

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

AC Generator Theory

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If an electric current is passed through this wire, which direction…

Flyback Switch Mode Regulator Calculator

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A calculator for computing several parameters needed in the design of a flyback switch mode regulator

Torque Conversion Calculator

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A tool designed to convert between units of torque

DC Motor Control Circuits

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

Contactors

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

Polyphase Motor Design

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

Inductive Reactance

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

Intro Lab - How to Use a Voltmeter to Measure Voltage

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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 Systems

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Single phase power system schematic diagram shows little about the…

Ammeter Design

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What would happen to this meter movement, if connected directly to a…

Power Quality Measurement

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It used to be with large AC power systems that “power…

R, L and C Summary

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With the notable exception of calculations for power (P), all AC…

N-Way Power Divider Calculator

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This calculator determines the total path loss provided by an RF n-way power splitter.

Design Project: Sensitive Microphone Amplifier

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Identify which direction each potentiometer wiper must move in this…

Rectifier Circuits

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What is Rectification? Now we come to the most popular application of…

Node Voltage Method

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The node voltage method of DC network analysis solves for unknown…

Microprocessor Programming

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The “vocabulary” of instructions which any particular…

Introduction to Insulated-gate Field-effect Transistors

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As was stated in the last chapter, there is more than one type of…

Design Project: DC Motor

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

Basic Circuit Troubleshooting

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Determine if the light bulb will de-energize for each of the following…

Shift Registers: Serial-in, Parallel-out (SIPO) Conversion

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A serial-in, parallel-out shift register is similar to the serial-in,…

How to Use Thevenin’s Theorem

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This page will walk you step-by-step through the process of…

Encoder

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What is an Encoder? An encoder is a circuit that changes a set of…

Parallel Wire Inductance Calculator

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This tool is designed to calculate the inductance of two parallel wires

Si Lab - Astable Multivibrator Audio Oscillator

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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.

Decibels

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The Bel is Used to Represent Gain In its simplest form, an…

Edge Coupled Trace Inductance Calculator

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This calculator helps you compute for the inductance of an edge coupled trace.