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Q&A PCB as a wall of an underwater enclosure

I guess it would work. I have used electrodes on a PCB to detect whether water level got high enough to turn on a sump pump. It worked, although it hasn't been installed very long. In that case ...

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

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Q&A Step voltage 750kV lines

It's really not clear what exactly happened in that video. We see someone slinging a hook over the power line, then we see a white picture. We don't know what the cable was made of and where the ...

posted 2mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Correct way to think about thermal noise?

I have just started learning about thermal noise in op-amps and while studying could not find if the noise given in op-amps data sheets is random sample to sample regardless of the time interval be...

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

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Q&A Disabling breakpoints in real-time section of firmware

Got a question about hazardous breakpoints in real-time firmware. Does C have a mechanism which lets me mark a section of code such that breakpoints are somehow ignored or not allowed just in that...

3 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by misk94555‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Gnomo‭

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Q&A Power switches and automotive load dump, unclamped

It seems you want to protect a device against power spikes. The power supply is nominally 12 V, but can have spikes up to 79 V with an impedance of 500 mΩ. Two timing values were given, but they ...

posted 9mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Meta Tag creation/deletion criteria

Because of recent discussions regarding whether vague terms like voltage and ground should be valid tag names or not, it is clear that we have no consistent rules here. These terms are about on-top...

2 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭

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Q&A Power switches and automotive load dump, unclamped

Power switches used in automotive are usually rated to withstand clamped load dump events, of the 35 - 40 V peak variety. AFAICT there are two main clamping mechanisms - first one for the logic par...

2 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by kellogs‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by TonyStewart‭

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Q&A Burned Source Driver - Noise Spikes from Relay Coil

At first this sounded like it might be a classic case of forgetting the flyback catch diode across the relay coil. However, now that you've posted a schematic we can see that a diode is built into...

posted 8mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A What are some best practices for library management?

Most CAD packages use a "symbol" and "footprint" library approach when it comes to designing schematics and PCBs. Some (like recent versions of Altium) have "component" libraries where symbols and ...

3 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by Mu3‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by H_H‭

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Q&A Why 3.3V instead of 3V?

Sorry, but I have to challenge your premises when you say that most numbers are "round numbers" and that could be a reason for choosing some value. You compare those values by the number of decima...

posted 9mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Lorenzo Donati‭

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Q&A Essential safety features of an EMG/medical grade device?

EMG consists of an electrode gel skin interface, op-amps with a certain gain and an ADC. Question is in the context of passive electrodes. What are the essential safety features of such types of h...

3 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by tilly‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by TonyStewart‭

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Meta Let's make all downvotes public

I have proposed to fix a threshold of 100 pts to have the rights to downvote, which solves partially the problem of massive downvotes by trolls creating new accounts. This suggestion seems to have ...

posted 2y ago by coquelicot‭  ·  edited 2y ago by coquelicot‭

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Q&A Press fit PCB receptacle for plated holes (Marked for non-plated holes)

Considering that the same manufacturer has models specifically for plated holes too, it probably matters. One thing that I noticed in looking around is that the models for unplated holes have a kn...

posted 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Meta Still getting downvotes - what are you guys doing about it?

It's still happening: - Can someone actually do anything about this? This has happened on stack exchange before but this is ridiculously more far fetched than what has ever happened there. Do y...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Andy aka‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Flyback transformer for Vout > Vin

How is it possible to generate 500V on a trafo secondary given the 1:1 ratio? In a DCM flyback transformer circuit, the secondary winding is being used as a pure inductor. So, once the primary...

posted 2y ago by Andy aka‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Andy aka‭

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Q&A Design considerations for a differential pair

As far as I know from my own experience, CAN and at least 10 Mbit twisted pair ethernet both care about the impedance between the two wires, not so much from each wire to some common ground. This ...

posted 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Electromagnetic induction

You are asking about this circuit and want to know whether this is a radio transmitter/receiver system. No, it's not. First, everything is DC. There is no radio propagation at DC (0 frequency...

posted 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A PCB ground planes with isolated voltage

You have a 6 layer design for controlling 24V brushed DC motor, galvanically isolated voltage rails(24V and the rest) and your question is how to separate them properly. There is no further reason...

posted 2y ago by 2kind‭

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Q&A PCB Copper Layer Spacing & Voltage Rating

I am not familiar with that standard specifically. However, usually standards will have some multiple for effective separation distance inside a PCB versus across air. One standard I remember spe...

posted 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Standardized schematic/layout file formats for PCB CAD tools?

As far as I know, there is no standard format, at least not one supported by many packages. What I would look for instead is the existence of converters. Check the ability of a tool to export or ...

posted 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Meta Are reference requests on-topic?

Are reference material requests on-topic here? For example, I am looking for a textbook discussing hydrogen fuel cell design, preferably oriented towards something that could be made in a high sch...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Darth_Muldoon‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A Inductance vs frequency

Inductance is defined by the shape of the coil, the area of the coil, the number of turns in the coil, the distance between turns, the ferromagnetic permeability of material within (and surrounding...

posted 2y ago by Andy aka‭

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Q&A What is the popular 12 V DC jack connector?

One common 12 V DC power connector is the "2.1 mm plug": 2.1mm inner diameter, 5.5mm outer diameter. Jameco says it is one of the most common DC power connector. Several Sparkfun power connecto...

posted 2y ago by DavidCary‭

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Q&A What is the difference between emitter and collector of a transistor?

In all descriptions of how (non-FET) transistors work I've seen, there is an inherent symmetry: There's either an n-doped layer between two p-doped, or a p-doped between two n-doped, and the descri...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by celtschk‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

Question transistor