More about Peculiar Parts (15)

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| In 1939 the Empire State Building used a ‘balun’ in a television antenna feedline for the first time. It’s almost 100 years later and baluns...

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| The relay logic used to control industrial machinery was eventually replaced with discrete digital logic but it was still difficult to modif...

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| There’s a good chance that you’ve used a TL431 programmable reference recently without even knowing it. These small 3-terminal devices blend...

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| How do you receive RF signals like FM radio or traditional broadcast television? Since this is Elektor it’s much more interesting to use a d...

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| Bandgap voltage references are a great and easy to use accurate reference when you need them. But what about when a reference’s stability ov...