| The first device that springs to mind when thinking about measuring radioactivity is the Geiger-Müller tube. However, these counter tubes ar...
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| The instrument described here lets you check that zener diodes up to 200 V are working correctly, and it lets you find out the reverse break...
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| Conventional step-up switching regulator ICs need at least one external Schottky diode and have the disadvantage that there is no effective...
| A Zener diode is the simplest known type of voltage limiter (Figure 1) As soon as the voltage exceeds the rated voltage of the Zener diode,...
| With battery-operated equipment there’s always the risk of batteries being inserted the wrong way around. Although a diode or a bridge recti...
| The Tube Box lends to a solid state amplifier that characteristic valve sound required by any self-respecting guitarist.Guitar valve (or ‘tu...
| It is well known that the p-n junction of a diode has a temperature coefficient of –2 mV/°C, and this fact is often used for temperature mea...
| If you ever look at construction notes for building old detector type radios the type of headphones specified always have an impedance of 2...