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Electrical Engineering

Questions tagged [pins]

May refer to conductive traces of an integrated circuit, exposed as metal contacts, or pins, which are large by comparison and make physical connection to other components feasible. May also refer to metal pins connected to specific traces of a printed circuit board for the purpose of connecting and disconnecting external components or peripherals in a reusable way.

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Intercept pin headers, three way or the header?

Is there some kind of T-splitter 3-way-splitter etc for pin header blocks? Something that passes through the pins but also contacts them and exposes a set of right angle pins too? So you can use a ...
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What kind of fan connector is this?

I need to change fans of my beamer but I cant find a replacement because I dont know which connector they used. Thought it would be an 3 Pin connector but it isnt. The connector in the pictures is ...
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What are the rr pins on an sram?

I've been using an IBM liberty (cell library) file for some SRAMs, dating back to 2007. [For copyright reasons, I can't post the content here]. I don't have the datasheet, and I've been trying to work ...
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Need to identify this pin / terminal

I need to identify this pin so I can order more. RESEARCH: I've pored over Molex.com, Allied Electronics, and here with no success. I also reached out to JST and Allied directly but they were unable ...
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How can I check if an IO pin is dead?

I've been playing around with I2C for a couple days now with a DE10-Nano dev board: I'm implementing an I2C master in CLaSH so that I can talk to the HDMI encoder chip, but for now I'm talking to an ...
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Identification of 2-pin connector on 1999 Pump Machine

During my master thesis, I need to install an old vacuum pump to an machine (1999). However I encountered this type of connector, which I am not familiar with. I have searched around the web with no ...
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Altium pin parameters in symbols

thanks for the many great questions and answers over the years. This is my first question. I use Altium Designer for capturing designs. I had an idea to make my processor components a little more ...
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Need to identify this pin receptacle and plug

I need to identify this pin and this plug so I can order more. RESEARCH: I've pored over Molex.com, Allied Electronics, and here with no success. Please understand, I'm fairly new to electrical ...
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Part number pin for socket programming

I'm developing a board using the Omega2 and I need a socket for the software uploading. I found this great video: https://youtu.be/aoYadArVJPw I need these pins at 0:25 sec ; does anyone knows the ...
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Query: why a 4-pin DIN plug on a 5 VDC 10 A supply?

My new 5 VDC 50 W PSU has a 4-pin DIN output plug. The output diagram on the PSU lists two pins as (-), and two as (+). The voltage between any +/- pair is identical (5.13 V), so why the need for two ...
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ATmega328p PIN reading

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Arduino - Using NPN transistor as a switch to pull-up/down analog pin

Let me start by saying that I am not an EE, and my knowledge in Electronics is basic, so please bear with me and be patient if, initially I am bending a few rules. In Epee fencing, a touch is awarded ...
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How do you connect a device pin AIo when there is only AI0+ and AI0-

I am new to electronics and I faced this problem. I tried to search about it but got lost. Here is the sensor and the DAQ device https://docs-emea.rs-online.com/webdocs/13ec/0900766b813ecfc2.pdf ...
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What to do with internally unused pins on a non-programmable device?

I'm designing a board for using the FLIR Lepton 2.0 LWIF camera (datasheet at https://www.flir.com/globalassets/imported-assets/document/lepton-engineering-datasheet---without-radiometry.pdf), and ...
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Pager system charging pin and socket

Does anyone know what these pins are called? This is a pager from paging system used in certain restaurants. I'd like to know what it's called as I want to use it in my device's design. I need to know ...
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Can I test if a battery is connected to a circuit?

I have a 12 V rechargeable lead acid backup battery that is connected to a circuit. When the battery is not in use there is a constant 12 V applied for charging, and when the battery is in use there ...
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Soldering double deck pin headers

Please take a look at a PCB like this one (STM32 Nucleo64 board): They utilized so called "double deck" or "stacked" headers, meaning they can be used from both sized (top and bottom). My question ...
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Can problems arise from mixing 2.5mm pin pitch components with 2.54mm through-hole protoboards?

I am new to electronics and from what I understand, most protoboards seem to be standardized on a 2.54mm (0.1") pin pitch. I am also aware that there are through-hole components which are manufactured ...
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Resistor or no resistor between this IC and the pmos GATE?

I'm using this IC (https://www2.mouser.com/datasheet/2/609/ADM1270-878589.pdf). This IC controls the GATE of a pmos. I'm thinking about using this MOSFET (https://www2.mouser.com/datasheet/2/389/...
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Using ICL8038 as a VCO

I wanted to use this function generator IC as a voltage controlled frequency output especially to obtain low frequency sine waves. But unlike many implementations, I wanted to control the frequency ...
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Are all the pins from a USB3.0 micro-B connector necessary

I'm designing a system that has a camera (Ximea: MQ042RG-CM) that uses a female USB3.0 micro-B connector. I could connect to my computer through a male end, but I want to minimize the number of ...
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Not enough pins, looking for a “demultiplexer” that keeps state [closed]

I want to control a simple display with a microcontroller. The display has 8 input pins, the microcontroller only 6. Is there an IC that I can interpose that lets me set the state of each of its ...
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High-level (Ioh) and low-level (Iol) output current measurement on I/O pins

I'm looking for a procedure to measure the High-Level output current (Ioh) and Low-Level output current (Iol) in a I/O pin for a IC. I'm planning to use a variable resistor tied to VDD or VSS. Maybe ...
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Giant pogo pin or spring probe pin for registration during electrical test

Solved: if you search for "GP-2 PCB Board Umbrella Shape 5.3mm Tip Testing Probe Pins Receptacles" you will find these probes! Thanks for the help! I am designing an electrical test fixture, and I ...
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LSM9DS1 accelerometer with too many aux pins. Which ones are actually useful?

I'm designign a board with an LSM9DS1. I have an SPI bus (with only this device connected), two gpio for the chip selects (it has two CS, one for gyro and accel and the other for the magnetometer. ...
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Can Micro-controller bear the voltage at its pins more than its rated voltage?

I have a micro-controller, for which i have a datasheet specifying the ac/dc characteristics of that mcu. But in this datasheet there are no absolute maximum ratings only the operating conditions are ...
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Need advice with pin connection of an LCD module

Hello. I am working on this LCD module, COG-C144MVGI-08. Like in the image I uploaded, PIN 1, 4 and 12 are ground. (Just in case you need the full datasheet : https://www.avrfreaks.net/sites/...
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esp32 adafruit huzza32 touch button

I'm having a problem mapping touch pins(for touch buttons) on adafruit hazzah, because pins on the chip(for touch sensors) and board doesn't match. Does anybody knows how to connect them(to which pins)...
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Errors in pin assignment for a SPICE file in Altium

I'm trying to simulate the following circuit in Altium before going to PCB route: But I get the following pin errors: I found the SPICE model and tried to assign them to this footprint: Here is ...
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Calculating required delay before pin value is recognized in 8051

I looked at the following in hopes my question will be answered: can we use 8051 pin as Input and output at a time? But the answer was vague. It stated: "though there is a 'strong' source ...
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Nexus 6P FPC connector

What is the importance of this metal edge of my Nexus 6P fpc connector? I broke one of the two, would anything be affected? Is there a name for this piece?
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Is a voltage level shifter necessary?

I am using an STM32F100xx MCU and I want to communicate via UART with a GPS module, specifically the A7 Thinker GPS GPS Module with A7 Thinker from Aliexpress This module, when a 9V battery is used, ...
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Are pins of my Arduino fine? [closed]

I was making an Arduino project. It was a very safe project as I copied it from Arduino's official website. The project was about adjusting the speed of blinking the LED on 13 pin of the Arduino. I ...
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How do the pins of this analogue switch correspond in this diagram?

Regarding an answer of my previous question, I want to use the following topology: When the input is below the threshold, the comparator output is HIGH and the Analogue switch above outputs the set ...
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Changing GPIO pin configuration on the fly

I am using STM32F0 based ARM Cortex-M0 micro controller in my project. Because of lack of available pins, I need to use one pin as an ADC-input and as a GPIO-digital-out (not at the same time, but in ...
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BA3121 datasheet pin confusion

The BA3121 is an audio (ground loop) isolation amplifier. In the datasheet there is no simple pinout picture with names of the pins, so I draw this pinout picture by following the block and the ...
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Connecting to an IR sensor to a microcontroller module without soldering pins

I'm trying to connect an IR sensor to an Adafruit Feather Huzzah microcontroller module without soldering the pins on. The sensor has a power supply of 5V which I have connected to the USB pin of the ...
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Help identifying/using some weird pin headers

EE student who's a little new to the hardware side of electronics here. I could use some advice on how to use these things- I assumed they were pin headers, but I might be wrong about that. They ...
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What's the name of this nice spring contact?

Ah, it is really a beauty isn't it (see picture below)? Around the package you see some spring contacts, really, really nice. I have some ESP8266MOD modules and like to use these spring contacts ...
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Arduino Nano pins are always high

i started to build an infrared transmitter (commander). I use 4 pushbuttons for left, right, up, down. These buttons are pulling down when pressed. I used internal pullup resistors. My prboblem is ...
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Is this an accurate model of a microcontroller pin?

For something so common, I can't seem to find anything online on what a microcontroller pin "looks like" (besides a high-level voltage source when output, open-circuit when input). So I decided to ...
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DAC behaviour on reset / startup LPC1768

I am programming a mbed LPC1768 for a constant current discharger. I plan to use the DAC output on the LPC1768 for setting the current in my discharge circuit. edit: The trouble i am having is ...
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FMC connector in AC701 and clock management

I will be using the AC701 FPGA board. https://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/boards_and_kits/ac701/ug952-ac701-a7-eval-bd.pdf I need to use the pins of the FMC connector to connect the outputs ...
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Is there a device which replaces soldered pin headers?

I have to flash several devices and up to now I was soldering pin headers to attach the device to my PC. I will soon have 20 or so to flash and would like to avoid messing up with the soldering part (...
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ADC: should I pull up the unused pins?

I am reading the datasheet for an ADC. There is no reference as to what to do with unused pins. I am willing to put some pull-up resistors but.. What would you do?
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Implementing a good connection for pogo pins in eagle

I'm currently working on my very first SMT PCB, and would like to connect a number of PCBs to the main PCB using spring loaded pogo pins like these: http://uk.farnell.com/harwin/p19-2221/probe-convex-...
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What does Pin type I mean on the ESP32 datasheet

On page 3 of the esp32-wroom datasheet (PDF) it shows a series of pins with type "I". What does pin type I mean? Are these different to the pin type I/O pins? If so, how?
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Not enough pins on my micro controller? [duplicate]

this is my first electronics project that i am doing so my understanding is pretty basic. I am using an ESP8266 connected to a L293D motor driver to power a bipolar stepper motor. The issue I am ...
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FPGA - Is it possible to change the pin direction/type during runtime?

On an FPGA, is it possible to mimic the behaviour of something like an Arduino, whereby the code running on the chip is able to designate a pin as an input or output? Let's say the FPGA is configured ...
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What kind of wire-to-board connector is this?

It has a pitch of approximately 3.9 mm. Pins are 1.1 mm square. On the board there are 2 and 3 pin versions of this connector. Here are a few pictures:

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