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Soldering

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Both soldering irons and soldering guns are tools used in the process…

DIY EE Lab - Setting Up a Home Electronics Lab

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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.

Electrical Connections

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What, exactly, is necessary to establish electrical continuity between…

Practical Considerations - Capacitors

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Capacitors, like all electrical components, have limitations that must…

Low-pass Filters

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By definition, a low-pass filter is a circuit offering easy passage to…

Step-up, Step-down, and Isolation Transformers

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

Printed Circuit Board Layout and Manufacture

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When a PCB designer speaks of dimensions in thous or mils, what does…

Building Resistor Circuits Using Breadboards, Perfboards, and Terminal Strips

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Over the course of learning about electricity, you will want to…

Re-drawing Complex Schematics

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Typically, complex circuits are not arranged in nice, neat, clean…

Voltmeter Design

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Suppose I were about to measure an unknown voltage with a manual-range…

Embedded Microstrip Impedance Calculator

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This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of an embedded microstrip.

DC Lab - Build Your Own Multimeter

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In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a simple voltmeter and ammeter while learning some fundamentals about circuit measurements.

Microstrip Wavelength Calculator

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A tool designed to calculate the guided wavelength inside a microstrip.

Questions relating to project management

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Kirchhoff’s Laws

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Many electronic circuits use what is called a split or a dual power…

Rectifying Diodes

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

Special Transformers and Applications

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Impedance Matching Because transformers can step voltage and current…

Soldering

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Both soldering irons and soldering guns are tools used in the process…

Edge Coupled Microstrip Impedance Calculator

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This tool helps calculate the impedance of an edge-coupled microstrip.

Stripline Crosstalk Calculator

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This tool is designed to calculate cross-talk coefficient and coupled voltage for a stripline

Step-up, Step-down, and Isolation Transformers

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

Wire Microstrip Impedance Calculator

Tools

A helpful tool for calculating the impedance of a wire microstrip.

Microstrip Inductance Calculator

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This calculator computes the inductance of a microstrip etched on a PCB.

Microstrip Max Current Calculator

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A calculator for solving the maximum current a microstrip can handle.

Design Project: Power Inverter

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A common topology for DC-AC power converter circuits uses a pair of…

Minterm vs Maxterm Solution

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So far we have been finding Sum-Of-Product (SOP) solutions to logic…

Copper Wire Ampacity Table

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Ampacities of copper wire, in free air at 30o C: INSULATION TYPE…

Semiconductor Manufacturing Techniques

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The manufacture of only silicon based semiconductors is described…

Simple Circuits

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

Read-Only Memory (ROM)

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Read-only memory (ROM) is similar in design to static or dynamic RAM…

Active-mode Operation (BJT)

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When a transistor is in the fully-off state (like an open switch), it…

Monostable Multivibrators

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We’ve already seen one example of a monostable multivibrator in…

“Long’’ and “Short’’ Transmission Lines

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In DC and low-frequency AC circuits, the characteristic impedance of…

Transistors, Hybrid

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In essence, the IGFET controls the base current of a BJT, which…

Si Lab - JFET Switching Circuit and Static Electricity Sensor

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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.

Complex Vector Addition

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If vectors with uncommon angles are added, their magnitudes (lengths)…

DC Lab - Parallel Batteries

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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.

Differentiator and Integrator Circuits

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By introducing electrical reactance into the feedback loops of an…

Time-delay Relays

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What are Time-Delay Relays? Some relays are constructed with a kind of…

AC Lab - PC Oscilloscope

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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.

Voltage Divider Calculator

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The voltage divider is a circuit used to create a voltage less than or equal to the input voltage.

Step-up and Step-down Transformers

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So far, we’ve observed simulations of transformers where the…

OpAmp Oscillator Circuits

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

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.

SPICE Simulation of Series and Parallel Circuits

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Previously, we examined series circuits and parallel circuits using…

Performance-Based Assessments for AC Circuit Competencies

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The NOT Gate

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The single-transistor inverter circuit illustrated earlier is actually…

Motor Control Circuits

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