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Posts by Andy aka‭

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Q&A How could a damaged wire in split-phase power delivery create these voltages?

When the outage occurred, I observed the following The L1/G voltage difference was 120V (good). The G/L2 voltage difference was 90V (bad). The L1/L2 voltage difference was 30V (very bad!). If t...

posted 4y ago by Andy aka‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Andy aka‭

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

$$\boxed{\text{What maximum value of } I_{OUT} \text{ did you have in mind?}}$$ Using $I_{OUT}$ and $V_{OUT}$ we calculate power uplift. Using power uplift and switching frequency, we calculate how...

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

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Q&A Control circuit for Power Converters

These are my general thoughts: - Easiest - power management IC (PMIC) Smallest footprint - PMIC usually Cheapest - usually PMIC (for a certain minimum performance level) Highest performance - PMIC...

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

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Q&A CAN Bus - Internal Oscillator

CAN is asynchronous and, if you receive a string of consecutive zeros, the UART mechanism that turns raw CAN data into "a byte" might have to wait a great deal longer than 1 bit of data before it c...

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

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Q&A Diodes used in mixers

There are plenty of ways a single diode and a couple of resistors can perform multiplication (RF mixing). Consider this circuit that takes two inputs (a 1 MHz sinusoidal carrier wave and a 10 kHz t...

posted 3y ago by Andy aka‭

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Q&A Adding resistance to varactor circuit

in my schematic we must add R1 correct? Yes that works except: - One last question if we deliver voltage to a house are there varactors which can handle 120V AC No, they don't exist.

posted 2y ago by Andy aka‭

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Q&A Role of C2 (bypass capacitor)

Is C2 here to protect the voltage source from thermal noise? There's absolutely no chance that any level of thermal noise produced by a resistor will be sufficient to cause any reasonably desi...

posted 12mo ago by Andy aka‭  ·  edited 12mo ago by Andy aka‭

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Q&A What to check for when buying an electronic component or module?

Any electronic component or module you buy for a project or design should have a data sheet. By data sheet I mean a portable document format (PDF or equivalent) like this: - Do not assume that...

posted 4y ago by Andy aka‭  ·  edited 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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

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Meta Are we there yet?

$\color{purple}{\text{Are we there yet?}}$ No, it's not ready: - The embed image doesn't seem to work anymore on the EE part of the site and neither does it work here. It did yesterday because I a...

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Meta Viewing the potential live output when editing a question or answer.

A work around has been found for this and I'm sure this will get a proper fix before long: - Go to the edit button for your answer (for example) and press it Notice that there is no live preview s...

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Q&A What is the difference between differential amplifier and differentiator?

I need to know what is the difference between differential amplifier and differentiator A differential amplifier amplifies the difference voltage between two signal voltages. A differentiator ...

posted 3y ago by Andy aka‭

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Q&A Coupling of inductors

Which will be the total inductance of this circuit? Quite simply, if both the individual 1 henry inductors are perfectly magnetically coupled then, the net inductance will be 4 henries. If bot...

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Meta Should a fake user's posts be deleted if the fake user has subsequently been deleted by the site

The question below was raised by a "new user". The identity of the "new user" was deleted because it was found to be an alias of an already suspended user: - So, why is the question still active...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Andy aka‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Meta Let's make all downvotes public

Very short answer - get rid of downvotes on answers; just don't allow them In fact, wouldn't it be a better policy to award upvotes to people who point out errors. That would encourage folk to wan...

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

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