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For redundancy purposes, a number of power supplies, using ORing diodes, can work into the same load. During maintenance, when you can remove any power supply, the minimum possible power perturbation at the load is desirable...

Renesas Electronics expanded its industry-leading environmental sensor portfolio with its first family of thermopile-based detectors with integrated optical filters for optical (NDIR) CO2 sensors...

The ATtiny45/85 USB Phone Charge Guard controls and monitors the charging of phones and other devices. Voltage, current, power and energy are constantly measured...

In the circuit assume that a brush-type dc motor must drive a load back and forth between two endpoints on a lead screw. Optical sensors determine end of travel, and an SPDT switch selects to which end to send the load...

Most simple circuits you'll find for measuring reactive components cover only a limited range of component values. Here's a circuit built from a handful of inexpensive parts that will let you measure values of both capacitors and inductors over seven orders of magnitude...

It can be helpful to rapidly and easily determine the polarity (npn or pnp) and function of a transistor. The pocket-transistor tester is ideal for quickly testing without regard to such parameters as gain and frequency response...

The circuit here is an oscillator with an unusual frequency divider that I designed when I was developing an RF system. I needed a stable and accurate 455 kHz digital signal generator that used as few components as possible...

Switching Battery Inc., has unveiled an innovative electronic method for the connection of batteries called "para-series". The patent-pending para-series method is based on dynamically switching a group of batteries...

Also called the ThermoPen, the goal of this project was to create a portable thermometer usable for precise uses case...

A global survey by Farnell shows significant use of low-cost SBCs are being used in all stages of product development and production led by the Raspberry Pi...