Questions tagged [conductors]
A conductor is an object or type of material which permits the flow of electric charges
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Resistor ratings for inductor fly-back suppression
I am building a circuit for user to interface with relays, and I am trying to build a protection to the circuit against fly-back from the inductor coil of the relay. Since there is no specific relay ...
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Voltage on a Transmission Line with Ideal Conductors
Let's consider a transmission line with Perfect Electric Conductors.
We know that if an external AC source is applied, we get a voltage waveform between the conductors which is function of the ...
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Voltage drop in a conductor
My textbook, Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition, by Scherz and Monk, says the following in section 2.3.1 The Mechanisms of Voltage:
In regard to potential energies of free ...
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How to determine cross section of cable [duplicate]
I'm looking at this table that suggests a 0.5mm2 cable could withstand 720W at 3A.
At the same time I used a cable size calculator online to determine the size of cable I would need to use for a ...
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Is Mica non-conductive?
Are mica flakes like ones found in makeup and body lotions completely non conductive and should I be worried if it gets inside the components of my computer? Or should I be more concerned about ...
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Which is a better conductor, a very thick rubber wire or a very thin copper wire?
I read somewhere that very thick wires are generally better conductors than very thin ones. Is this true? If yes, then would a very thick rubber wire be a better conductor than a very thin copper wire?...
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Two short circuits
I wanted to ask a concept but couldn't guess how to explain so I'm taking help from this example. This is not a homework problem.
Now my doubt is all the current will go through the horizontal ...
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Is it right to define ground as a pool of surplus free electrons, like a metal?
In a dipole antenna or any other pole like antenna, there is supposedly a ground on one side causing the current to flow away and towards the ground towards the feed, but if the whole antenna itself ...
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What is signal ground
I encountered signal ground symbol while studying 555 IC
Please explain why isn't a simple ground connection used and how does signal ground differ from normal ground. I am a first year undergraduate, ...
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Parasitic Inductance
when we say that in a wire there is a parasitic inductance, what is its cause? Is it the skin effect of the wire, the magnetic flux (generated by the current) through the surface of the total circuit ...
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Current Flow in conductors [closed]
How current flow remains continue in a conductor when all the free electrons reach from negative terminal to positive terminal?
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How current and potential propagate through electrical circuits?
I have something of a theoretical question. In any given electrical/electronic circuit there seems to be an electric field developed inside (and outside the conductors?) to push the electrons in the ...
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I've become an electrical conductor for my headphones… but how?
So I have a pair of Bose noise-cancellation headphones that I plug into my keyboard every night to charge them (via my keyboard's USB port). My keyboard happens to be a metallic Apple keyboard. You ...
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Can you turn two inductively coupled conductors into a transformer?
So I'm working on a school project, and to be honest. Don't know a lot about electromagnetism. I want to make a wireless charging station that could be plugged into the outlet. Of course I don't want ...
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Coaxial cable: how is it possible to define a conductance?
I have a coaxial cable with internal conductor of radius r1 and external conductor of radii r2 and r3. The material of the conductors has a conductivity \$\sigma_1\$. Between the conductors there is a ...
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earthing conductor
I'm studying the subject Electrical Safety in Engineering and a special term really drew my attention. When I tried to google it, no any option was suggested but Protective conductors.
In the ...
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Ohmic power loss due to electric field
Recently I read in the basic EM theory course , that the Ohmic power dissipated in a conductor is directly proportional to the conductivity and the square of the electric field intensity , but we know ...
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Using Chassis as a conductor for DC Power Supply Return
Is it considered a good practice to use the chassis as a return path to a DC Power Supply?
I have been given a rack mounted device that switches 480 volt power on/off remotely. The remote feature is ...
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Can a capacitor charge and discharge at the same time?
Is it possible to use the stored energy while the capacitor is being charged? In other words, use a capacitor almost as a conductor?
My gut says the answer is probably no (and my own experiments so ...
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PCB conductor spacing high voltage
How much distance I have to create on a PCB between a coated conductor and an uncoated component pin with a voltage difference of 200V?
From different websites and calculators I can only get the ...
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Is it safe to use individual conductors removed from a multi-conductor cable?
I am working on setting up a research lab at a university as a graduate research assistant. We're working on power electronics in a three-phase environment, which means we'll be using at most five ...
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galvanized wire as material to construct a sensor matrix
I did a button matrix using galvanized wires (only one thread, 1 mm thickness) and it works. (But) I don't know, it's a good material o it can melt with temperature? Maybe galvanized metal is a "bad ...
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Is a hole in a conductor the same thing as a positive ion?
The flow of current in a (semi-)conductor is often described as holes and/or electrons moving between atoms. In this context:
Is an atom with a hole the same thing as a positive ion (cation), and
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What to do when I have energy loss due to distance
I have to connect a total of 15 12 V, 2 A motors in parallel.
They are all going to be connected to a battery and I’m trying to bring a line to connect all 15 of them. The distance between them is 25 ...
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“etching” transparent conductor on transparent plastic film or glass? [closed]
I've put the word etching in quotations as the method to get conductive tracks on a glass or plastic film might not involve a subtractive approach as with traditional PCBs of applying a conductive ...
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Different conductors in the electical circuit
Recently my brother has decided to change conductors in the home's electrical circuit.
We had aluminium conductors and now we are going to replace it with copper conductors, but my friend told me ...
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How nickel plated copper strip can be welded? What is the optimum thickness of nickel layer?
I have a trouble with (resistance) spot welding of nickel plated copper strip to 18650 battery. I tried to weld 0.1mm, 0.2mm and 0.3mm copper strips with 5 micrometers and 10 micrometers nickel plate ...
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Boundary conditions of the Electric field of a conducting transmission line
Solving Maxwell's Equations for the Electric Field of a linear-isotropic cylindrical conductor leads to the electric field being proportional to the Bessel function of the first kind (see below).
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Unlimited electrons?Can a conductor cancel a very strong field?
I started studying about how a conductor behaves once placed inside an electric field E0 . The electrons will move inside the conductor according to the electric filed's direction gathering at one ...
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Predicting current flow through crosshatched wire
Consider the crosshatched current-carrying wires depicted:
The shorter wires have been placed on top of the longer wires. Each wire can facilitate a maximum of 170 amperes of current and contributes ...
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Can overhead ground wire of major transmission lines prevent induction through solar storms?
As I understand it the overhead ground wire found on major transmission lines is placed there in the event of a lightning strike which prevents a surge in the phase conductors. My question is, could ...
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Electrical resistance of two conductors of equal surface area in contact with another?
Resistance of a wire can be determined by the formula R = resistivity*(length/area). What if you have a wire composed of two parallel metals that are in contact with one another? Will the resistivity ...
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Do 2 conductors (1 grounded via resistor) reach equipotential, before surplus electrons drain to earth?
Case I: a negative conductor makes contact with a neutral conductor. Negative donates some electrons to neutral, until there is 0 potential difference. Then they both are slightly negative.
This ...
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Why do soldering guns use copper as a heating element?
According to Wikipedia;
The body of the tool contains a transformer with a primary winding connected to mains electricity when the trigger is pressed, and a single-turn secondary winding of thick ...
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Conductive Adhesives?
I'm helping with a kid's Maker's project. We need to attach some LED's to some coin cell batteries for part of a holiday project.
Are there any conductive adhesives we can use for this? Durability ...
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How to calculate total impedance of two parallel conductors
I am trying to calculate the total impedance of two parallel copper wires under the following conditions:
The copper wires are thick
I want to include all relevant effects, including (but not limited ...
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Typical resistances of jumper wire and silver foil
What is the typical resistances of the following or how can I go about calculating this approximately?
1) Typical jumper wires used in prototyping with breadboards
2) a silver foil with dimensions ...
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Calculate total impedance in circuit with series RL in parallel with C and R
Hi im trying to find the total impedance in this circuit but im having troubles figuring it out. I have calculated the individual impedance for each branch like following:
Xc = 46.8 ohm at -90 degrees
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How does electricity pass through a surface (or more generally, conductive material with complex geometries)?
I was reading this article on how the breaking mechanism of a Sawstop works. For those who might not know, Sawstop is a table saw fitted with at least a conductivity sensor that detects changes in ...
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Will electricity flow in a perfectly conductive medium?
I was just wondering that since resistance is required for a potential difference to build up, what happens when we have a perfectly conducting wire, 0 resistance? Will current still flow through the ...
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What is the metallic coating on these stranded copper wires?
The 5-colored wires's strands looks like aluminium, but it is basically copper wire at centre, with a thin conductive coating (my teacher shown it to me) of silvery-color, so that the copper doesn't ...
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Sizing battery cables
I'm confused about the sizing of the battery cables for a UPS system,
When the battery is discharging the voltage decrease and current increase to a maximum value (which depend on the end of discharge ...
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How can I ensure low-resistance ground contacts to an aluminum enclosure?
I am building an electronics project with an aluminum enclosure. I need to ground it—and very well—for human safety. (The system handles 300 A of current, and I want to be sure that if there is an ...
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transformer windings
I have a 900 watts transformer from a microwave, this used to have a secondary voltage of around 2000 volts (for the magnetron) but I removed it. I wonder if by using 15 turn secondary that will give ...
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Why skin effect happens at the center of a conductor?
I was reading an article about Skin Effect. I know what skin effect is, but I wanted to know what causes it.
Why is the back EMF strongest at the center?
Why is it not distributed uniformly at the ...
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Two conductors in parallel
If we have one conductor through which current flows, and we place second conductor near it, the conductor with current flowing will induce electron flow in the second conductor.
Can we detect the (...
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What happens when I put a charge inside a conductor that is already in static equilibrium?
I understand how, when a neutral conductor is charged, the charges will repel each other and after the relaxation time will all be distributed in the surface of the conductor.
My question is: after ...
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Where can I find a good theoretical treatment of conductor shielding?
Suppose one has three current carrying cylinders lying on the same plane. Some of the electric field of the first conductor ends up on the second conductor, which creates capacitance \$C_{12}\$. But ...
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How can I work out if a cable can take a momentary current spike?
In this video here, almost 1000A is being run through a 10mm steel bar, and after a minute or so, it melts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzZ3aJqmT-M
So in terms of charge, 60,000C applied for 1 ...
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Using a bottle of water as a resistor
Today, while drinking some water from a \$500mL\$ bottle, I started reading the info about the water and found out that the conductivity (\$\sigma\$) at \$25°\$C is \$147.9\mu S/cm\$. So it came to my ...
