The interlock contacts installed in the previous section’s motor…
A very useful tool for observing rotating objects is a strobe light.…
Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…
Most students of electricity begin their study with what is known as…
Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…
Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…
A three-phase motor may be run from a single-phase power source.…
Most AC motors are induction motors. Induction motors are favored due…
How is it possible to electrically measure the torque output by a…
At first it may seem pointless to have the four buffer gates following…
Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
Explain the operation of this “H-bridge” motor control circuit: At…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
If an electric current is passed through this wire, which direction…
Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) uses digital signals to control power…
Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…
How is it possible to electrically measure the torque output by a…
The interlock contacts installed in the previous section’s motor…
It is sometimes said regarding electrical safety that, Ït’s not the…
If an electric current is passed through this wire, which direction…
Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) uses digital signals to control power…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
The armature windings of your DC motor will have very low resistance.…
All About Contactors When a relay is used to switch a large amount of…
Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…
Just as devices have been made to measure certain physical quantities…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
A calculator for computing several parameters needed in the design of a flyback switch mode regulator
Most students of electricity begin their study with what is known as…
Normally, the rotor windings of a wound rotor induction motor are…
At first it may seem pointless to have the four buffer gates following…
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.
Calculate the voltage output by the secondary winding of a transformer…
Charles Proteus Steinmetz’s first job after arriving in America…
Explain the operation of this “H-bridge” motor control circuit: At…
Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…
Whenever electrons flow through a conductor, a magnetic field will…
Since three-phase is used so often for power distribution systems, it…
As opposed to normal equations where the solution is a number, a…
With BogusBus, our signals were very simple and straightforward: each…
Circuits consisting of just one battery and one load resistance are…
Suppose we wanted to build a device that could add two binary bits…
A serial-in, parallel-out shift register is similar to the serial-in,…
Shown here is the schematic symbol for a resistor: What is the purpose…
A bistable multivibrator has two stable states, as indicated by the…
This tool is designed to compute for the trace width of a microstrip
Remember that this tutorial is not exhaustive by any means, and that…
While mention of operational amplifiers typically provokes visions of…
What is an Encoder? An encoder is a circuit that changes a set of…
In this motor control circuit, how would you ensure that there is no…
This chapter will cover the physics behind the operation of…
Metric Prefixes Yotta = 1024 Symbol: Y Zetta = 1021 Symbol: Z…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Our exploration of thyristors begins with a device called the…
In this circuit, the electric motor is supposed to turn on whenever…
When an electric current is passed through a coil of wire, what…
