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What is Alternating Current (AC)?

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Most students of electricity begin their study with what is known as…

Brushless DC Motor

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Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…

Tesla Polyphase Induction Motors

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

Linear Computational Circuitry

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

Stepper Motor Calculator

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A tool designed to calculate the maximum speed, minimum time per step and maximum power of a stepper motor

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…

Stepper Motors

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

AC Motor Control Circuits

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Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…

Selsyn (Synchro) Motors

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Normally, the rotor windings of a wound rotor induction motor are…

AC Lab - Induction Motor

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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.

Pulse Width Modulation

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Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) uses digital signals to control power…

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…

Rectifier Circuits

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

Bipolar Junction Transistors as Switches

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Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…

Oscilloscope Trigger Controls

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A very useful tool for observing rotating objects is a strobe light.…

DC Generator Theory

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

Stepper Motors

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Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…

Design Project: DC Motor

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

Servo Motor Systems

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Explain the operation of this “H-bridge” motor control circuit: At…

Single-phase Induction Motors

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

555 Timer Monostable Circuit Calculator

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This calculator computes for the output pulse width of a 555 timer monostable circuit

Stripline Max Current Calculator

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A calculator designed to calculate the maximum current that a stripline can handle

Ohm’s Law (again!)

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A common phrase heard in reference to electrical safety goes something…

555 Lab - Introduction to the 555 Timer IC

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In this collection of hands-on electronics experiments, build and test mixed-signal analog and digital circuits using the versatile 555 timer IC. These projects will teach you about RC time constants, duty cycle, transistor current drive, LEDs, voltage doublers, and more.

DC Lab - 4-wire Resistance Measurement

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will perform a 4-wire Kelvin resistance measurement and learn how to accurately measure resistance.

Physical Effects of Electricity

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Certain substances are known to physically deform (shorten or…

Semiconductor Devices in SPICE

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The SPICE (Simulation Program, Integrated Circuit Emphesis)…

Slope (integrating) ADC

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So far, we’ve only been able to escape the sheer volume of…

Calculating Power Factor

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As was mentioned before, the angle of this “power…

Harmonic Phase Sequences

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In the last section, we saw how the 3rd harmonic and all of its…

What Are Zener Diodes?

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What Is a Zener Diode? A Zener diode is a special type of rectifying…

Design Project: Voltmeter

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The most important component of your voltmeter will be the…

AC Lab - Sensing AC Electric Fields

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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will sense AC electric fields using the sensitive voltage detector and learn about capacitive coupling, EMI, and shielding techniques.

Digital Logic With Feedback

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With simple gate and combinational logic circuits, there is a definite…

Absolute dB scales

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Decibel as Absolute Unit of Power It is also possible to use the…

Introduction to Electron Tubes

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

The Quadratic Formula

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Solving for x in a given polynomial equation “ax2 + bx + c…

LC Tank Circuit Resonance Calculator

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This calculator computes the resonant frequency of a parallel inductor and capacitor "tank" circuit.

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…

AC Motor Control Circuits

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Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…