Mechanically powered Emergency Flashlight
Flashlight or Torch is very useful in emergency situations like power failure. These flashlights are battery-operated, and we...
How to Measure Current with an Oscilloscope
Measuring current is a simple task – all you need to do is hook up a multimeter to the circuit you want to measure and the...
DIY Arduino Power Supply Shield with 3.3v, 5v and 12v Output Options
When developing electronic projects, the power supply is one of the most important part of whole project and there is always...
Mains Power Supply Failure Alarm Circuit
Although there are inverters and generators to immediately start the AC power supply whenever there is a power cut but sometime...
4-20mA Current Loop Tester using Op-Amp as Voltage to Current Converter
Sensors are an integral part of any measurement system as they help in converting the real world parameters into electronic...
Arduino based Text to Speech (TTS) Converter
Text-to-speech or TTS system converts normal text into Speech. This tech enables the system to speak out the text in a human...
Single Cell Boost Converter Circuit using Coin Cell – 5V Output
Battery cells are the most commonly used energy source to power portable electronics. Be it a simple alarm clock or an IoT...
RC Phase Shift Oscillator using Op-Amp
A Phase Shift Oscillator is an electronic oscillator circuit which produces sine wave output. It can either be designed by...
How to make a Supercapacitor Charger Circuit
The term Supercapacitors and its possible usage in Electric Vehicles, Smartphone’s and IoT devices are being considered...
Sziklai Transistor Pair
Sziklai Transistor Pair was first designed by George Sziklai to overcome some efficiency related issues with Darlington pair,...
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Introduction to Relay Logic Control - Symbols, Working and Examples
Relay logic basically consists of relays wired up in a particular fashion to perform the desired switching operations. The...
Schottky Diode – Characteristics, Parameters and Applications
Diode is one of the basic components that are commonly used in electronic circuit designs, it can be commonly found in...
Transformerless LED Driver Circuit for Reliable Low Cost LED Bulb Designs
LED bulbs are said to be 80% more efficient than other conventional lighting options like fluorescent and incandescent bulbs....
What is Bleeder Resistor and where it is used?
Bleeder resistors are standard high value resistors which are used to discharge the capacitor in filter circuit. The...
Bi-Directional Logic Level converter using MOSFET
Back in the ENIAC era, computers were more analog in nature and used very few digital ICs. Today an average Joe’s computer...
Diode Clipper Circuits: Design & Demonstration
As the name suggests, Clipper circuit is used to “clip” a portion of input signal without distorting the remaining part of the...
Galvanic Isolation – Signal Isolation and Power Isolation
An average household microwave oven operating at 110/220V AC can produce upto 2800V inside it, which is dangerously lethal....
Understanding Maxwell Equations
Maxwell equations are the fundamentals of Electromagnetic theory, which constitutes a set of four equations relating the...
Transimpedance Amplifier - Current to Voltage Converter
To explain in simple words a Transimpedance amplifier is a converter circuit which converts the input current to a proportional...
Understanding Power Factor and How It Affects your Energy Bills
Aside from safety and reliability, several other goals including efficiency should be pursued in the design and implementation...
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Buck Regulator Power Module with Integrated Shielded Inductor in Tiny QFN Package
RECOM added a new power module RPX-2.5 to its DC/DC converter portfolio. One of the smallest in its class of low profile QFN-...
Mouser Electronics and MATRIX Industries Enter Global Distribution Agreement
Mouser Electronics announces a global distribution agreement with MATRIX Industries, the Silicon Valley materials science and...
New Rectifiers in MicroSMP Package Increase Power Density, Improve Efficiency
Vishay Intertechnology introduced new 200 V Fred Pt Ultrafast recovery rectifiers in the eSMP® series MicroSMP (DO-219AD)...
TSR-WI Series – New 0.6 and 1A POL converters
Traco Power introduced the ultra wide 8:1 input POL converters to cover many standard bus- and battery voltages. The TSR-WI...
Low quiescent current, ultra-small LDO linear regulator to increase battery life in power-sensitive industrial and personal electronics
Texas Instruments introduced an ultra-low-power low-dropout (LDO) linear voltage regulator with the industry’s lowest quiescent...
New 3W AC/DC converter modules with 1.1”x 0.9” footprint
RECOM introduces the RAC03-K series 3W AC-DC converter modules, that can be used in a wide range of applications with its complete certifications...
LYTSwitch-6 LED drivers offer improved power density and efficiency
The new LYTSwitch-6 LED drivers provide up to 110 W output with no heatsinks and smallest footprint to suit smart-lighting and...
New battery charger delivers low termination current to increase battery capacity and life
Texas Instruments introduced a new switching battery charger integrated circuit (IC) that supports a termination current of 20...
New power modules with CoolSiC MOSFETs for EV charging and UPS
With the increasing numbers of electric vehicles, the demand for energy efficient charging solutions is also rising. Addressing...
Two new USB-PD solutions to simply power delivery in USB Type-C charging
USB Type-C has become increasingly popular, and with the introduction of Power Delivery (PD), it is now possible to charge...