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1-07-2004 | Sometimes it is desired to power a circuit from a battery where the required supply voltage lies within the discharge curve of the battery....

1-01-2004 | Sense resistors in series with the load are central to regulating current in switch-mode power supplies. It is possible to optimise the powe...

1-12-2003 | New applications for DC voltage converters, such as the ‘workhorse’ LT1070, arise every day. These converters can be adapted to nearly every...

1-12-2003 | It is all too often necessary to augment the power supply of an existing electronic circuit because exactly the voltage that you need is mis...

1-11-2003 | This circuit is based on the PIC16C765, a recent addition to the large Microchip PIC family. It can be used to measure two analogue voltages...

1-07-2003 | Most small internal-combustion engines commonly used in the model-building world use glow plugs for starting. Unfortunately, glow plugs have...

1-07-2003 | In order to measure the RMS value of an alternating voltage an accurate converter is required to produce the true RMS value of its alternati...

1-01-2003 | Switch-mode power supplies are not among the hobbyist’s favourite circuits. The specialised components are often hard to obtain, and mistake...

1-09-2001 | Having problems connecting standard video to your S-VHS equipment? You need this neat circuit. It takes a composite video signal and convert...

1-07-2001 | This DC-to-DC converter delivers a maximum power of about 36 watts at an efficiency of 90%. Apart from a modern FET and a Schottky diode, th...