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Q&A Who is familiar with PocketLink semiconductor and or Tesla Model 3 electronics

I got my hands on a Tesla Model 3 aftermarket module (Display/Cluster) The IC's are labled with the brand 'PocketLink' Id like to know more about what these parts are. Chip1: PocketLink B2 003...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Steven83‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A Why are there more N type than P type MOSFETs?

One reason could be that N type MOSFET can switch loads that are in Drain, meaning that whatever the load voltage, you can turn it on/off directly with any microcontroller, provided that the MOSFET...

posted 3y ago by Kranulis‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Kranulis‭

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Q&A Why is the resistance of water so high and still so dangerous?

I think your measurement instrument is fine. What is not is your understanding of resistance: there is nothing like this "resistance of water". In your case, the measured resistance depends on the...

posted 4y ago by coquelicot‭  ·  edited 4y ago by coquelicot‭

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Meta Quality control of the site

Let's take a look at the state of affairs for the past few weeks on this forum. For the past two weeks, some users has been posting a lot of questions, a lot of them self-answered. This is not a p...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Mu3‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A How to protect RF switches from ESD?

Currently there are $\boxed{\color{red}{\text{three}}}$ downvotes so maybe someone can explain why this has happened. Anyway, on to my downvoted answer: - You have "mentioned" the threat (the ESD ...

posted 3y ago by Andy aka‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Andy aka‭

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Q&A How do "O-ring circuit" differ from an "ORing circuit" or "OR-ing circuit", or are they synonyms? [closed]

I've seen a few different circuits (a) (b) (c) (d) described as "an O-ring circuit" or "an optimal O-ring circuit". What does the "O" and the "ring" refer to in such circuits? How do "O-ring circ...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by DavidCary‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Lorenzo Donati‭

Question power-supply semiconductor-diode power-sharing
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Meta Let's make all downvotes public

I have finally downvoted the post of Andy "Very short answer - get rid of downvotes on answers" despite it is rather close, in some respects, to my own views. Let me clarify myself. I've never said...

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

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Meta Let's make all downvotes public

People will be afraid to say what they really mean. If you don't have enough conviction in your judgement that something is wrong, then it's not worth listening to in the first place. If this di...

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

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It seems to me like the goal of the proposed change is to fight vandalism. I am pretty certain that no online forum has found a way to stop trolls, simply because trolling is one of the ways people...

posted 3y ago by Mu3‭

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Meta Creating an "Insights" category

@Olin. I already read the help/papers doc you pointed out. And that's why I think a part of the papers are very far from the description there (except the "to educate" clause, at the most). As far...

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

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Q&A How long does it take for energy to propagate in a circuit?

I add my answer here because I think the other answers are incorrect or irrelevant: namely, the answer of Andy is nice after he has redrawn the schematic and changed the problem, answering to anoth...

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

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Q&A What reactance actually is?

I saw that equation of reactance is written like this $$I=\frac{V}{|R+X_L j|}$$ $$I=\frac{V}{|R-X_c j|}$$ When there's capacitor and inductor in a single circuit then it is written like : $$I=\...

4 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 3y ago by Andy aka‭

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Q&A Unexpected phase shift in results

There is a mistake in the last line: $$\eqalign{V_{C_1}(t) &= V_1(t) - RI_{C_1}(t) \cr &= \sin(t) - \dfrac{\sin(t) + \cos(t) - \mathrm{e}^{-t}}{2} \cr &= \dfrac{\sin(t) - \cos(t) + \m...

posted 4y ago by coquelicot‭  ·  edited 4y ago by coquelicot‭

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Q&A JFET equation of current

Is this equation valid only when a JFET in saturation mode , correct? because in the ohmic region the JFET acts like a voltage controlled resistor and increase in VDS increases the resistance of th...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by MissMulan‭

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Q&A Is this AD8307 fake?

I am not familiar with that chip, and only took a very quick look at the datasheet. Here is the block diagram of the part from the top of the first page: A few things pop out from this: This c...

posted 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Is there a way to reliably measure antenna return loss outside a lab?

The RSSI detector in the receiver is the best field tool. In Windows I had a tool (Wifi Radar?) that read the Broadcom IC RSSI and displayed a time plot of the results as I changed laptop orientati...

posted 4y ago by TonyStewart‭  ·  edited 3y ago by TonyStewart‭

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Q&A Current and voltage in AC circuits without impedance

How can we find the equation of current and voltage of a capacitor circuit if the input voltage is AC without using the impedance formula Xc = -jωC?. We have for homework to find the equation of...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by MissMulan‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Complex frequency of a pole

If we have the transfer function of a LC high pass filter: $H(s) = \frac{sL}{sL+\frac{1}{sC}}$ If we want to find the pole of that filter in the end we get: $s = \frac{j}{\sqrt{LC}}$ and for a ...

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by MissMulan‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Lorenzo Donati‭

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Q&A Finding voltage gain of Hartley oscillator

I am trying to find the AC analysis of a BJT Hartley oscillator but I cannot continue. How do I find the voltage gain? When no feedback is there, we just find the output resistance and the current...

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

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Meta Easy way to convert over long comment into an answer

Easy way to convert over long comment into an answer. It would be great if while typing a quick comment to a question you realise that you are about to exceed the character count and it is a valid...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by KalleMP‭

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Q&A How do PLCs normally measure 4-20mA current loops?

you want a current source start with a linear regulkator like LM340 and use the relays to switch in different load resistors.

posted 3y ago by Jasen‭

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Q&A Mysterious little cases hanging on street wirings in India

CATV distribution is typically half-inch rigid coax, so it's not that. It looks more like a fibre junction box "aerial fibre terminal" in the parlance.

posted 3y ago by Jasen‭

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Q&A Find Q point in common base BJT configuration

Load line Formal "explanation" In common emitter collector we just draw a line from the vertical axis (Ic) at the point (0,VCC/RC) to the horizontal axis at the point(VCC,0) and where that line...

posted 3y ago by Circuit fantasist‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Circuit fantasist‭

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Q&A Modelling tunnel diode relaxation oscillator

I have been trying to model this oscillator I was wondering if we can somehow predict the frequency of the oscillations.For small currents inside a diode from the Shockley diode equation $$ e^{x...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by MissMulan‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Lorenzo Donati‭

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