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Wound Rotor Induction Motors

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A wound rotor induction motor has a stator like a squirrel cage…

What is Alternating Current (AC)?

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

Reluctance Motor

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

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,…

DC Motor Control Circuits

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

Inductive Reactance

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

DC Motor Theory

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

Bipolar Junction Transistors as Switches

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Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…

AC Motor Theory

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Electromechanical watt-hour meters use an aluminum disk that is spun…

Oscilloscope Trigger Controls

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

Single-phase Induction Motors

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

AC Instrumentation Transducers

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

Stepper Motors

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Stepper Motor vs Servo Motor A stepper motor is a…

Contactors

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

Tesla Polyphase Induction Motors

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

Motor Control Circuits

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

AC Lab - Automotive Alternator as AC Generator

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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will use an automotive alternator to generate three-phase AC voltage and learn how alternators can function as both generators and motors.

DC Generator Theory

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

Synchronous Motors

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Single Phase Synchronous Motors Single-phase synchronous motors are…

Single-phase Induction Motors

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

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.

Motor Control Circuits

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

AC Motor Control Circuits

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Perhaps the most challenging aspect of interpreting ladder diagrams,…

Basic Troubleshooting Strategies

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A chandelier has five light bulbs in it, and one of them is not…

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.

AC Lab - Automotive Alternator as AC Generator

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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, you will use an automotive alternator to generate three-phase AC voltage and learn how alternators can function as both generators and motors.

Bipolar Junction Transistors as Switches

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Solid-state switching circuits usually keep their constituent…

Tube Lab - Vacuum Tube Audio Amplifier

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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.

Boolean Algebra

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

Selsyn (Synchro) Motors

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

Intermediate Electromagnetism and Electromagnetic Induction

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

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…

Tesla Polyphase Induction Motors

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

Brushless DC Motor

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Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…

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.

AC Instrumentation Transducers

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

Step-up, Step-down, and Isolation Transformers

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

Rectifier Circuits

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

Passive Filter Circuits

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In very simple, qualitative terms, rate the impedance of capacitors…

The P-N Junction

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If a block of P-type semiconductor is placed in contact with a block…

AC Lab - Musical Keyboard as a Signal Generator

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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, an electronic musical keyboard will be used as a variable-frequency AC signal generator to learn the difference between AC amplitude and frequency.

Contact “Bounce”

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When a switch is actuated and contacts touch one another under the…

Series Resistor-Inductor Circuits

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In the previous section, we explored what would happen in simple…

Basic Ammeter Use

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Show how this ammeter would be connected to the light bulb circuit to…

Introduction to Shift Registers

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Shift registers, like counters, are a form of sequential logic.…

Don’t Care Cells in the Karnaugh Map

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Up to this point we have considered logic reduction problems where…

Relay Construction

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Electricity and Magnetism An electric current through a conductor will…

Scientific Notation in SPICE

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The SPICE circuit simulation computer program uses scientific notation…

SPICE Models

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The SPICE circuit simulation program provides for modeling diodes in…

Tubes versus Semiconductors

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Devoting a whole chapter in a modern electronics text to the design…

Parallel Circuits and the Application of Ohm’s Law

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In this introduction to parallel resistance circuits, we will explain…

Bandpass Filter Calculator

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This calculates values of the inductance, capacitance of an inductor and capacitor used in a Butterworth LC bandpass filter.

Electromagnetic Induction

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While Oersted’s surprising discovery of electromagnetism paved…

Class C BJT Amplifiers

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A common class of operation used in radio-frequency (RF) amplifier…

DC Lab - Current Divider

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build resistive current dividers and observe how Ohm's law and Kirchhoff's current law function in real circuits using a voltmeter and an ammeter.

Magnetic Fields and Inductance

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

Hyperbolic Functions

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Note: all angles (x) must be expressed in units of radians for these…

Multi-Stage Transistor Amplifiers

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