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I have an ordinary consumer-grade standby UPS with, I believe, ample power for the devices connected to it.[1] It's five years old. For the second time in about a month, I've found my computer po...
Such a domed button is usually called a "membrane switch", at least here in the US. As you say, the small metal bubble makes contact with something underneath when pressed. Advantages of membrane...
You say the only thing that will be powered by the ±12 V supplies is a comparator. The first thing I would look at is whether you really need the comparator to run from that voltage range. Presum...
I have never seen this slow drift in ceramic caps, yet I have seen fast memory effect drift in S&H designs using high Dk ceramic capacitors in the 70's. So I have learnt that all ceramic caps h...
The remote control of my TV has two kinds of buttons. There are "normal" ones for the digits etc. which work by bringing a conductive material on the underside of the button in contact with the boa...
Hello! I would like to ask for your assistance with using a Silverstone DA1650 Gold computer power supply (you can find more about it here: Silverstone DA1650 Gold) for a non-computer application. ...
The reason I left that comment is because determining the quality of a coaxial cable involves electrical engineering more so than an electrician, let alone some DIY. The rule of thumb "would you a...
the original question is interesting and deserves a technical answer So go write one. That's your call, just like it's mine not to. We are all volunteers here, and are therefore never obligated ...
There is no definite answer to this but, if you want my advice, you store all symbols and footprints locally with your project. Of course you may begin by using standard parts from a global (comes-...
I don't know about "best practices", but I make all my own library parts. I use Eagle, and the library parts that come with Eagle are quite inconsistent in things like pad shapes, what is shown on...
I've seen batteries get shorted a few times. They heat up, and obviously the battery is not useful after, but I've never seen them explode or catch fire. I've read reports of some batteries catchin...
Since you seem to be asking about whole batteries, not individual bare cells, dangerous effects should be limited. Consumer batteries made from lithium cells almost always include integrated prote...
Safety of medical devices is not something you should be asking random folks on the internet about. The rules are stringent, for good reason. The clearance and creepage distances to line voltage,...
I have a similar problem when debugging firmware on a dsPIC that drives a flyback power supply. The switch isn't designed to be on for very long, as eventually the inductor saturates. Usually the...
The two ICs you reference don't do the same thing. The first sentence of the first datasheet says: The MAX16141/MAX16141A ideal diode controllers provide system protection against a variety of sy...
I don't have that book, but the statement you cite (emphasis mine): ... when s=jω the integral on the RHS of eq. 2.48 does not converge for unstable systems doesn't mean the transfer function...
A while back someone suggested that we added a section for reviews to the site - How about a new section for code reviews? From that meta thread we gathered that: There seems to be community con...
Breakpoints are beyond the scope of the C language, so this is up to the specific debugger and CPU core. What you will probably have to do to block accidental breakpoints is to not provide any debu...
Here is another take at that problem. First let's define some quantities that will be useful later: \[ \begin{align} A &= \frac {V_2} {V_1} \qquad\qquad B = \frac {R_L} {R_S} ...
Additions: Do not use company names in tags. Questions should be about specific products, not about companies. Furthermore, silicon companies merge/split and purchase each other all the time, ...
Draft for a tag creation/deletion criteria A tag must fulfill all of the below requirements or it may get renamed or deleted: A tag must be named appropriately, considering Tag naming guideline...
I agree with the answer of Lundin except for point 3 disambiguation. Regarding 3), in case a term does have several different meanings and all meanings are on-topic, then the most common/jangon ...
I intend to build a high-power series LC resonant circuit for the purpose of generating strong magnetic fields at a wide range of frequencies, mostly audio range (1-5000 Hz). The inductor coil is a...
There actually seem to be two different questions here. Can a primary (non-rechargable) battery be damaged by forcing reverse current thru it? Yes. Primary batteries are only intended to source ...
Has anyone else noticed a loss of reputation recently. I thought I checked yesterday and my reputation was a hundred points higher at 1889. Now it is at 1789. My vote summary doesn't indicate a los...
