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Motor Control Circuits

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

Oscilloscope Trigger Controls

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

Synchronous Motors

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Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…

What is Alternating Current (AC)?

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

AC Motor Control Circuits

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Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…

Stepper Motors

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Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…

Single-phase Induction Motors

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

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…

Design Project: Stepper Motor Driver

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

AC Instrumentation Transducers

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

Servo Motor Systems

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

Inductive Reactance

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

AC Generator Theory

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

Pulse Width Modulation

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

Bipolar Junction Transistors as Switches

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Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…

DC Motor Control Circuits

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

Motor Control Circuits

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

Electric Shock

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

AC Generator Theory

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

Pulse Width Modulation

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

Inductive Reactance

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

Design Project: DC Motor

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

Contactors

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

Bipolar Junction Transistors as Switches

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Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…

AC Instrumentation Transducers

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

Boolean Algebra

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

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

What is Alternating Current (AC)?

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

Selsyn (Synchro) Motors

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

Design Project: Stepper Motor Driver

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

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.

Step-up, Step-down, and Isolation Transformers

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Calculate the voltage output by the secondary winding of a transformer…

AC Commutator Motors

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

Servo Motor Systems

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

AC Motor Control Circuits

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Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…

Magnetic Fields and Inductance

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Whenever electrons flow through a conductor, a magnetic field will…

Three-phase Transformer Circuits

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Since three-phase is used so often for power distribution systems, it…

Differential Equations

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As opposed to normal equations where the solution is a number, a…

Electrical Signal Types

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With BogusBus, our signals were very simple and straightforward: each…

What is the Difference Between Series and Parallel Circuits?

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Circuits consisting of just one battery and one load resistance are…

A Binary Adder

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Suppose we wanted to build a device that could add two binary bits…

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,…

Simple Circuits

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Shown here is the schematic symbol for a resistor: What is the purpose…

The S-R Latch

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A bistable multivibrator has two stable states, as indicated by the…

Microstrip Trace Width Calculator

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This tool is designed to compute for the trace width of a microstrip

Circuit Components

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Remember that this tutorial is not exhaustive by any means, and that…

Operational Amplifier Models

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While mention of operational amplifiers typically provokes visions of…

Encoder

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

Lock-out / Tag-out

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In this motor control circuit, how would you ensure that there is no…

Introduction to Solid-state Device Theory

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This chapter will cover the physics behind the operation of…

Metric Prefixes and Unit Conversions

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Metric Prefixes   Yotta = 1024 Symbol: Y Zetta = 1021 Symbol: Z…

AC Network Analysis

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

The Shockley Diode

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Our exploration of thyristors begins with a device called the…

Optoelectronic Devices

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In this circuit, the electric motor is supposed to turn on whenever…

Mutual Inductance

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When an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, what…