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| Audio lovers will no doubt drool over the new Elektor preamp with digital control published in this issue. This, of course, calls for a matc...

| The Maxim MAX 6665 (www.maxim-ic.com) provides a complete temperature-dependent fan controller. It can switch fans operating at voltages of...

| A notch for a narrow frequency band of a few per cent or even less normally requires close-tolerance components. At least, that’s what we th...

| One thing has characterised the electronics industry since the change from valves to solid-state devices — both components and products have...

| Building a square-wave oscillator using only three components is always a desirable accomplishment when space is tight, and if you can achie...

| What do capacitors, electret microphones and passive infrared sensors have to do with one another? It is often interesting to go back to fir...

| Many readers phone and write us with questions about components. Typical questions include: who’s the manufacturer of that IC, and where can...

| Crystals for operation above 20 MHz are invariably cut to an overtone (harmonic), which may be the third, fifth, or seventh. In other word...

| A linear circuit consisting of an input buffer, IC1a, and output-scaling amplifier, IC1b, two zener diodes, D1 and D2, and several other c...

| Designing electronic circuits almost invariably calls for extensive descriptions of the operation and typical application of the more co...