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Q&A Can I make an AC inductor (reactor) rated 75mH 40A from a 3-phase induction motor?

The 70.9/40.8 A rating for L.R. is rated only for ; Locked rotor time 19s (cold) 11s (hot) I doubt this meets your requirements unless you modify from a forced air cooling motor to a pumped liqu...

posted 5mo ago by TonyStewart‭  ·  edited 5mo ago by TonyStewart‭

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Q&A Weird grounding on a vintage hifi sideboard

I got a vintage ('64) hifi sideboard for Christmas! It's super awesome. However, I don't understand the grounding. It has two female inputs on the backside that are labeled as "Grounding". There w...

1 answer  ·  posted 4mo ago by OddDeer‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Driving LED with NPN transistor from I/O pin

If you choose suitable ultrabright LEDs , there is no need to use 40 mA. I have over 10 thousand LEDs all over 16,000 mcd at 20 mA which is painfully bright for close indicator but works well 100 ...

posted 8mo ago by TonyStewart‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by TonyStewart‭

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Q&A derating MLCC ripple current for transient current spikes

Remember that RMS measurements assume at least 1 cycle or in your case 100 ms or 10 Hz. So the Ripple Current/rms vs Temp rise is always valid for any duty cycle. This means in theory you can rai...

posted 8mo ago by TonyStewart‭

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Q&A Will shorting a lithium ion battery cause an explosion?

Will shorting a lithium ion battery cause an explosion? Chain Reaction: The release of flammable gases can lead to a chain reaction, where the heat generated by the short circuit causes even m...

posted 8mo ago by TonyStewart‭

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Meta How about a `basic-circuit-block` tag?

I'm in the process of giving the tags page some structure, writing tag descriptions and creating synonyms and some hierarchy. I'd like to know the Community stance on a new tag I'd like to add: b...

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭

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Q&A Confusion about channel capacity definition and units

Why can the channel capacity C of the additive white gaussion noise (AWGN) channel be denoted in different ways and how do they relate to each other? Examples: C = (1/2) * log2(1 + SNR) [bit?] ...

0 answers  ·  posted 8mo ago by daniel_s‭  ·  reopened 8mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Why 3.3V instead of 3V?

The other answers are excellent justification to the the industry standards imposed on CMOS logic. The historical migration to smaller lithography CMOS led to lower Cds values which led to faster ...

posted 9mo ago by TonyStewart‭

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Meta Tag naming guidelines.

Adding to what Lundin said (+1): s is seconds, S is siemens (1/Ω). What we write here is inherently HTML. Greek characters like µ and Ω are defined as HTML entities, and can always be writte...

posted 10mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭

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Q&A Power switches and automotive load dump, unclamped

The spec 79V 0.5 ohm 5ms = 62.41 Joules . The TVS must be rated for a low temp. rise at this energy dump or higher. MOV's are limited by the number of discharges as the oxide wears out, but may be...

posted 9mo ago by TonyStewart‭

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Meta Tags about quantities: should we have them?

I've noticed there are a lot of tags referring to general physical quantities (e.g. current, voltage, frequency) I'm not sure if they are useful. For example, what usage would have the tag voltage...

1 answer  ·  posted 10mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A Power Line Filter - Loaction of Cy and CMC

One additional wrinkle not (at present) mentioned is that Class X and Class Y capacitors are used in those specific locations for safety reasons, having to do with the capacitors being connected di...

posted 4d ago by Spamalot‭

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Q&A delay line realistic pulse voltage source of 74ABT04 [closed]

Hello,I want to simulate a delayed pulse going from 74ABT04 to the load which is UCC5304 where load with 400K i think. but my pulse source 74ABT04 is not an idial voltage source as shown in the s...

0 answers  ·  posted 9d ago by yefj‭  ·  closed 8d ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A LED driver with feedback through light. Which feedback topology is better?

I’d like to create a stable IR LED light source. I’ve read that LED efficiency changes with temperature. I’ve seen two designs which used feedback through light to correct the LED temperature dri...

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by misk94555‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by misk94555‭

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Q&A Standardized way of measuring AC line frequency

If you're talking oscilloscopes, I used to do peak-to-peak measurements for the time period. And then, as you note, invert for the frequency.

posted 17d ago by Michael‭

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Q&A Determining the output swing, output common-mode range and input common-mode range in a differential amplifer

First, common mode is something that only applies to a differential signal. When a signal is encoded in the difference between two voltages, the common mode voltage is the average of the two. The...

posted 2mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A LC Filter and Capacitor Considerations [closed]

I've been experimenting with LC filter circuits on the output of a SMPS I recently bought because it was too high for the circuit I'm making. After hooking up many different combinations, I found t...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by jm567‭  ·  closed 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Filtering the high frequency noise in switching PSU

It is well known that it is difficult to filter the noise generated by switching power supplies, and this difficulty increases as the PSU is supposed to deliver large currents. For example, in a us...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by coquelicot‭  ·  edited 3y ago by coquelicot‭

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Q&A How come the registers in a micro are application specific?

While the terminology is similar to that of microcontrollers, and of CPUs in general, the "register" term here is specific to energy meters. Essentially, this board is a very basic version of a sma...

posted 3y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A How come the registers in a micro are application specific?

They aren't specific to the project, but to the MCU. As long as you use the same MCU for multiple projects, they will be code compatible. Some hardware peripherals are even code compatible between ...

posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A General Questions Regarding FPGAs [closed]

I'm curious about FPGAs and would eventually like to get into them sometime during the future, so I'd like to ask three broad questions to help orient myself: In what applications are FPGAs the m...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by jm567‭  ·  closed 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A How to define Vsat for MOSFET as a switch?

First, that's an archaic chip that requires a lot of circuitry around it to do anything useful. Why use this particular chip? Second, the datasheet gives you an example of how to use this part as ...

posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A I have to choose: Arduino or Raspberry pi.

Moderator Note If this site were mature, this question would be closed because it solicits opinions, or is too specific about particular models. In the interest of site activity, answers are being...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by coquelicot‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A MAX809's Irregularity Depending on Load

I have a MAX809 with RESET pin connected to the gate of IRLML6344. I will rephrase my question. At 5 V, RESET is also 5 V and the LED lights up. But if I add the fan, RESET drops to 0 V and draws 1...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by timelyfiasco‭  ·  edited 3y ago by timelyfiasco‭

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Q&A MAX809's Irregularity Depending on Load

Before we get into your problem, there are a few things to say about your descriptions. You need to step back and think about what we know and don't know, then learn to communicate specifications ...

posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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