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Minimum Market Price for A Prototype Circuit
The amplitudes of two ~ 1 volt, 1 Hz AC signals need to be divided. Any DC offset or low frequency noise can be subtracted after half wave rectification / comparator or integration. It can be all...
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Interference
I recall reading that if an AM radio is tuned to frequency x plus or minus the heterodyne frequency a radio tuned to frequency x will be blotted out. Is this true? If so what is the heterodyne...
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Correlated Double Sampling
Hi, I'm looking for a circuit (schematic) with discrete components that allows me to do Correlated Double Sampling at low frequency (100kHz) in the field of image sensors. Circuits with chips are also...
 
Transformer power usage
I am curious. Does a transformer draw (considerable) power even with no load. I have a cheapo, unregulated 88W 120VAC to 12VAC transformer/timer (landscape lighting) in which the timer had failed. I...
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Need some advice about a Led switch
I want to use a switch to step through a ten LED string one LED at a time. I also need to bypass a LED (take it out of the sequence) when I want. I'm ginna be using a foot swtich if this matters. Any...
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Wiring Batteries Together
If I wire three 12 volt batteries together in series to get a 36 volt pack and they are all rated at 10 Ah each, then what is the Ah rating of the pack? I think it's 10, but I'd like some...
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How does this oscillator work?
I have come across a design for an oscillator that, boiled down to its essentials, has a configuration like this: ,--- VCC | .-. | | 330 | | '-' | | .----UUU----o | | | | --- | --- | | o--- Output | |...
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timing circuits hel please
I need a control circuit to control 3 relays this is what I won't to happen a push to make switch is closed relay 1 closes time delay 0 - 5 seconds relay 2 and 3 close the push to make switch is...
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B&K Precision Model 4011 Function Generator Price?
I have the Subject device, and am thinking about selling it. I bought it 9 years ago, and doubt that I even plugged it in. I have no idea what I paid for it. I see a 4011A is selling for $335. Any...
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Bio Sensors
Is there any equipment to moniter blood pressure or a human parameter in bio sensors
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Rectification Quotient Sync Filter
Rectify both the signal and the ref along with their noise components _then_ divide. Since there are no humps from multiplying two in sync signals as with lock in, only the noise needs to be smoothed....
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Cheap trimmer adjustment tool
aka trimmer alignment tool. Looking for the flat head type used for adjusting pots. Cheapest I've seen is $.70, anyone seen a cheaper source in the US?
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Electro-Magnetic Pulse
This guy was on C-span Books today. Fascinating concept, It is Semi Fiction. EMP is real, the story is fiction, set 1 second after a nuclear device sends out an electro-magnetic pulse....and the world...
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Quotient Sync Filter Better Than Lock In
A lock in amplifier multiplies an AC signal + noise by a synchronous reference signal. If the signal is sinwt and the ref is sinwt, the output is sin^2(wt) which is always positive. Regardless of the...
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IC Data Catalogs
Hello! Sorry if this has already been asked ad naseum, but here goes. When i was a little, my father used to have these large databooks from the major ic manufacturs, that listed the specs on...
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