Power Diodes
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Power Diodes and Rectifiers

Power Diodes are semiconductor pn-junctions capable of passing large currents at high voltage values for use in rectifier circuits. In…

Schottky Diode
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Schottky Diode

A Schottky Diode is a metal-semiconductor diode with a low forward voltage drop and a very fast switching speed. The…

Signal Diode
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Signal Diode

Signal Diodes are small two-terminal which conducts current when forward biased and blocks current flow when reverse biased. The semiconductor…

Speaker Short Circuit Protection Circuits
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Speaker Short Circuit Protection Circuits

The amplifier features delay, dc protection, and temperature monitoring across the speaker protection circuits. Since the application of short circuit…

PN Junction Diode
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PN Junction Diode

A PN-junction diode is formed when a p-type semiconductor is fused to an n-type semiconductor creating a potential barrier voltage…

PN Junction
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PN Junction

A PN-junction is formed when an N-type material is fused together with a P-type material creating a semiconductor diode. In…

Semiconductor
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Semiconductor

If resistors are the most basic passive component in electrical or electronic circuits, then we have to consider the Signal…

Varistor
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Varistor

The Varistor is a passive two-terminal solid state semiconductor device that is used to provide protection to electrical and electronic…

Resistivity
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Resistivity

Resistivity of materials is the resistance to the flow of an electric current with some materials resisting the current flow…

Darlington Transistors
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Darlington Transistors

The Darlington Transistor configuration of two bipolar transistors offers increased current switching for a given base current. The Darlington Transistor…

Push-button bathroom fan switch
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Push-button bathroom fan switch

Push-button bathroom fan switch design supports timed operation. This design switches a 120VAC load, and includes several much-needed details on…

Circuit provides reverse-battery protection
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Circuit provides reverse-battery protection

A universal problem in battery-operated devices is the threat of damage when an end user (never an engineer) inserts the…

Polarity-correcting circuit protects battery-powered devices
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Polarity-correcting circuit

Polarity-correcting circuit protects battery-powered devices. previously-published Design Idea outlined a polarity protection circuit that provides the correct connection of the…

MOSFET
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MOSFET

MOSFET’s operate the same as JFET’s but have a gate terminal that is electrically isolated from the conductive channel. As…

Transistor as a Switch
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Transistor as a Switch

Transistor switches can be used to switch a low voltage DC device (e.g. LED’s) ON or OFF by using a…

PNP Transistor
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PNP Transistor

The PNP Transistor is the exact opposite to the NPN Transistor device we looked at in the previous tutorial. Basically,…

NPN Transistor
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NPN Transistor

NPN Transistors are three-terminal, three-layer devices that can function as either amplifiers or electronic switches. In the previous tutorial we…

Bipolar Transistor
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Bipolar Transistor

The Bipolar Junction Transistor is a semiconductor device which can be used for switching or amplification. In the diode tutorials,…

Potentiometer
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Potentiometers

Potentiometers and Rheostats create a change in their resistive value when a connected shaft is physically rotated. Resistors provide a…

Resistors in AC Circuits
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Resistors in AC Circuits

Resistors can also be used in Alternating Current supplies where the voltages, currents, and power being consumed are given in…

Resistor Power Rating
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Resistor Power Rating

Electrical Power is absorbed by a resistance as it is the product of voltage and current with some resistances converting…

Potential Difference
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Potential Difference

The voltage difference between any two points in a circuit is known as Potential Difference and it is this potential…

Resistors in Series and Parallel
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Resistors in Series and Parallel

Resistors can be connected together in an unlimited number of series and parallel combinations to form complex resistive circuits. In…

Resistors in Parallel
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Resistors in Parallel

Resistors are said to be connected together in parallel when both of their terminals are respectively connected to each terminal…

Resistors in Series
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Resistors in Series

Resistors are said to be connected in series when they are daisy chained together in a single line resulting in…

Resistor Colour Code
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Resistor Colour Code

Resistor Color Coding uses colored bands to easily identify a resistors resistive value and its percentage tolerance. There are many…

Resistor
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Resistor

Resistors are the most fundamental and commonly used of all the electronic components, to the point where they are almost…

Electrical Energy and Power
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Electrical Energy and Power

Electrical Energy supplies the power required to produce work or an action within an electrical circuit and is given in…

Current Dividers
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Current Dividers

Current Divider circuits have two or more parallel branches for currents to flow through but the voltage is the same…

Voltage Dividers
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Voltage Dividers

Voltage Divider circuits are used to produce different voltage levels from a common voltage source but the current is the…

Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law
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Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law

Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law (KVL) is Kirchhoff’s second law that deals with the conservation of energy around a closed circuit path….

Current Sources
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Current Sources

A Current Source is an active circuit element that is capable of supplying a constant current flow to a circuit…

Voltage Sources
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Voltage Sources

A Voltage Source is a device that generates an exact output voltage which, in theory, does not change regardless of…

Star Delta Transformation
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Star Delta Transformation

Star-Delta Transformations and Delta-Star Transformations allow us to convert impedances connected together in a 3-phase configuration from one type of…

Maximum Power Transfer
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Maximum Power Transfer

Maximum Power Transfer occurs when the resistive value of the load is equal in value to that of the voltage…

Nortons Theorem
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Nortons Theorem

Nortons theorem is an analytical method used to change a complex circuit into a simple equivalent circuit consisting of a…

Thevenin’s Theorem
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Thevenin’s Theorem

Thevenin theorem is an analytical method used to change a complex circuit into a simple equivalent circuit consisting of a…

Nodal Voltage Analysis
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Nodal Voltage Analysis

Nodal Voltage Analysis finds the unknown voltage drops around a circuit between different nodes that provide a common connection for…

Mesh Current Analysis
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Mesh Current Analysis

Mesh Current Analysis is a technique used to find the currents circulating around a loop or mesh with in any…

Electrical Units of Measure
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Electrical Units of Measure

Electrical Units of Measurement are used to express standard electrical units along with their prefixes when the units are too…

DC Circuit Theory
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DC Circuit Theory

The fundamental relationship between voltage, current, and resistance in an electrical or electronic circuit is called Ohm’s Law. All materials…

Ohms Law and Power
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Ohms Law and Power

The relationship between Voltage, Current, and Resistance in any DC electrical circuit was firstly discovered by the German physicist Georg…

electricity
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What is electricity?

Electricity is a process of the transmission of an electrons group from one point to another.  That is the definition…

Schematic Circuit Symbols
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Schematic Circuit Symbols

Wind Speed Meter
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Wind Speed Meter

The principle behind this wind speed meter without moving parts is based on the measurement of a temperature difference. We…

Kirchhoff’s Current Law
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Kirchhoff’s Current Law

To determine the amount or magnitude of the electrical current flowing around an electrical or electronic circuit, we need to…

Automatic Sliding Door
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Automatic Sliding Door

Nobody pays much attention to automatically opening and closing sliding doors nowadays. In view of the complex mechanics involved, not…

Flashing lights schemitc
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Flashing Lights

This application of the well-known Type 555 timer is intended for model railway enthusiasts wishing to construct a two-lamp flashing…

Capacitors
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Capacitors

Capacitors are simple passive device that can store an electrical charge on their plates when connected to a voltage source….

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Kirchhoff’s Circuit Law

Kirchhoffs Circuit Laws allow us to solve complex circuit problems by defining a set of basic network laws and theorems…

Contactless Voltage Tester
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Contactless Voltage Tester

Contactless Voltage Tester

Infrared light barriers
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INFRA-RED LIGHT BARRIER

INFRA-RED LIGHT BARRIER Infrared light barriers enjoy great popularity as timing devices at sports venues, as detectors in alarm installations,…

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FOUR POSITION TOUCH DIMMER

FOUR POSITION TOUCH DIMMER Any electric light may be adjusted with this dimmer to very low, low, medium, and maximum,…

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FLASHING LIGHT WITH TWILIGHT SWITCH

FLASHING LIGHT WITH TWILIGHT SWITCH The special feature of this flashing light is the op- tical switch, which automatically switches…