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1-05-2001 | What do capacitors, electret microphones and passive infrared sensors have to do with one another? It is often interesting to go back to fir...

1-11-2000 | Many readers phone and write us with questions about components. Typical questions include: who’s the manufacturer of that IC, and where can...

1-07-1999 | Crystals for operation above 20 MHz are invariably cut to an overtone (harmonic), which may be the third, fifth, or seventh. In other word...

1-07-1999 | A linear circuit consisting of an input buffer, IC1a, and output-scaling amplifier, IC1b, two zener diodes, D1 and D2, and several other c...

1-01-1999 | Designing electronic circuits almost invariably calls for extensive descriptions of the operation and typical application of the more co...

1-12-1998 | Although you may well be the proud owner of the very latest NiCd battery charger, you may still come across the odd 'incompatible' batte...

1-12-1998 | This preamplifier was designed for low-impedance signal sources like MC (moving-coil) pick-up cartridges used in highend record players...

1-12-1998 | Being an all-solid-state design you don’t have to tap on this barometer to get the latest air pressure reading!

1-11-1998 | If you employ several networked computers, you probably don’t have enough desk space, since most of the system components are duplicated o...

1-07-1998 | This is an electronic equivalent of the traditional builder’s spiritlevel using a small glass tube nearly filled with alcohol but contai...