Both soldering irons and soldering guns are tools used in the process…
To build the DIY electronics projects described in this textbook, you will need a small work area, a few tools, and some basic electronics supplies. This page describes the setup of a low-cost home electronics laboratory.
What, exactly, is necessary to establish electrical continuity between…
Capacitors, like all electrical components, have limitations that must…
By definition, a low-pass filter is a circuit offering easy passage to…
Calculate the voltage output by the secondary winding of a transformer…
When a PCB designer speaks of dimensions in thous or mils, what does…
Over the course of learning about electricity, you will want to…
Typically, complex circuits are not arranged in nice, neat, clean…
Suppose I were about to measure an unknown voltage with a manual-range…
This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of an embedded microstrip.
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a simple voltmeter and ammeter while learning some fundamentals about circuit measurements.
A tool designed to calculate the guided wavelength inside a microstrip.
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Many electronic circuits use what is called a split or a dual power…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
Impedance Matching Because transformers can step voltage and current…
Both soldering irons and soldering guns are tools used in the process…
This tool helps calculate the impedance of an edge-coupled microstrip.
This tool is designed to calculate cross-talk coefficient and coupled voltage for a stripline
Calculate the voltage output by the secondary winding of a transformer…
A helpful tool for calculating the impedance of a wire microstrip.
This calculator computes the inductance of a microstrip etched on a PCB.
A calculator for solving the maximum current a microstrip can handle.
A common topology for DC-AC power converter circuits uses a pair of…
So far we have been finding Sum-Of-Product (SOP) solutions to logic…
Ampacities of copper wire, in free air at 30o C: INSULATION TYPE…
The manufacture of only silicon based semiconductors is described…
Shown here is the schematic symbol for a resistor: What is the purpose…
Read-only memory (ROM) is similar in design to static or dynamic RAM…
When a transistor is in the fully-off state (like an open switch), it…
We’ve already seen one example of a monostable multivibrator in…
In DC and low-frequency AC circuits, the characteristic impedance of…
In essence, the IGFET controls the base current of a BJT, which…
In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, use a junction field-effect transistor (JFET) to build a sensitive switching circuit and learn about JFET current gain.
If vectors with uncommon angles are added, their magnitudes (lengths)…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will connect batteries in parallel to power a light and learn the relationship between the individual battery currents and the total system current.
By introducing electrical reactance into the feedback loops of an…
What are Time-Delay Relays? Some relays are constructed with a kind of…
In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, use a PC-based oscilloscope program to observe waveforms from a musical keyboard and learn basic oscilloscope operation.
The voltage divider is a circuit used to create a voltage less than or equal to the input voltage.
So far, we’ve observed simulations of transformers where the…
Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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.
Previously, we examined series circuits and parallel circuits using…
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The single-transistor inverter circuit illustrated earlier is actually…
The interlock contacts installed in the previous section’s motor…
