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Electrical Engineering Essentials
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Vias: to tent or not to tent
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A question sometimes comes up concerning whether to tent or not tent the vias on a PCB. Altium by default does not tent the vias. There ar...
Fuses in Parallel
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Occasionally, we may need fuses in parallel to achieve greater current rating. For instance, the Mini ATO fuses come maximum 30A; any more ...
Sunday, July 14, 2013
Velocity Control
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Consider the simplest case, a body is acted on only by the force that you control. You want to reach certain speed; how should you control ...
Motor winding current and supply current
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When the motor drive operates in the torque mode, a constant torque implies a constant current in the motor winding. But we see the supply ...
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Noise Gain
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The term "noise gain" is used a lot in designs with opamps. So what is noise gain and how is it useful? If we model the opamp n...
Friday, January 4, 2013
Cheap Cen-Tech Multimeters
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The Harbor Freight Cen-Tech multimeter is about $4 or less. It measures voltage to 1000V DC/750V AC, current to 10A DC, resistance to 2MOhm...
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Components Review
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Here I give a review of electronic components that I used, particular on their quirks. Atmega644A Atmega644A has the same peripherals as ...
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