Questions tagged [resistors]
A resistor obeys Ohm's law (V=IR); the current through it is equal to the voltage across it divided by the resistance (equivalently \$I=\frac{V}{R}\$)
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Why don’t external boards need a resistor?
I’ve been trying to learn how to use my MPU6050 chip.
According to all of the tutorials/diagrams I’ve seen (one pictured below,) I don’t need to put a resistor in front of the MPU6050.
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Amplifying sinusoidal signals
How can you use Proteus to design and simulate a circuit for amplifying a sinusoidal signal with an amplitude of 2V? Using Arduino uno and op amp
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12 VDC to 6 VDC to power a radio [duplicate]
I have a Grundig radio that requires 6 V and 500 mA negative center pin. It is very sensitive to noisy wall warts, so I want to power it from my very noise-free ham radio 12 V power supply.
Can I use ...
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LEDs lowering my voltage
I'm getting to electronics and I have ran into a big issue. When I connect LEDS to my breadboard in parallel my voltage drops. I read in the past about series decreasing voltage and parallel ...
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Question about capacitor and resistor in "power on reset circuit"
What I am reading has this circuit:
It also has this description:
In analog power on reset implementation, the time and voltage
threshold factors are characteristic of an analog circuit. The time
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What would be the loop equation for circuit including resistor, diode, light emitting diode?
I am new to electronics. What would be the loop equation for the following circuit?
How would I find the current through the LED and the silicon diode in the circuit?
Any help would be appreciated.
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Analysis of circuit with dependent voltage source with no apparent solution
This is an exercise from Irwin's book, 9th edition.
simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab
Although the book calls for the use of nodal analysis, I decided to do it by mesh ...
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Situation with controlled source in Mesh Analysis. Situations without solution?
I was analyzing the circuit below, and by using Mesh Analysis (this I am currently practicing), I obtained that the voltage at the \$6k\Omega\$ resistor (R6) is \$9V\$. I was able to work this out and ...
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Will a resistor used for an indicator LED in latching pushbutton negatively impact APA102 LED performance in same circuit?
Just to give a little more context to the picture below, I currently have designed a PCB that I will solder/reflow with APA102 2020 LEDs which will work in conjunction with mechanical switches also on ...
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Why is a 220 Ω resistor for this LED suggested if Ohm's law seems to say much less is required?
I am a beginner in electronics, so have mercy on me lol. I have been interested in this particular switch with a built in LED here https://www.adafruit.com/product/1476.
According to the website, the ...
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High-voltage resistors versus anti-surge resistors
I am making a voltage divider with four 1M 1206 thick-film resistors and a single 2.7k resistor. The input to this voltage divider will be mains line and neutral.
I want to measure the voltage at line ...
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Any difference in parallel and row resistor circuit?
My goal is to create a 1.5 ohm resistor. I have 2 ohm and 1 ohm ones on hand. My idea was either to create two 3 ohm resistors to connect them in parallel or connect them in row. See picture below for ...
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Dual potentiometer the solution?
I'm working on retrofitting '14 Lincoln MKS 14 way power heated/cooled seats into a 2002 4Runner. I have all motors & lumbar wired. Had a Eureka moment on the TED and got it working!
3 position on/...
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Implementation of a 24 hour variable resistive load fluctuation
I am implementing a DC microgrid with a variable resistive load variation of 24-hours, based on a load profile.
I have implemented it in MATLAB through a variable resistor and a 1-D block to provide ...
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General statement about arbitrary two-port resistor networks
Suppose I have a resistor mesh that is acting as a two-port network. I'm feeding in \$V_\text{IN}(t)\$ and I'm reading out \$V_\text{OUT}(t)\$. Here's an example of a potential circuit:
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How to choose component values for a JFET common-source amplifier?
I am trying to design a simple common source jfet amplifier using a J109 transistor.
I'm using the J109 datasheet and equations from the book Electronic Devices by Thomas L. Floyd.
The issue is that I ...
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What's the use of the 100 kΩ resistors in this schematic?
I saw a schematic for measuring AC voltage on a 3-phase mains supply (R/Y/B are the 3 phases and N is the neutral)
I understand that the 1 MΩ and 2.7 kΩ resistors are for stepping down the voltage (...
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Equivalent resistance in simple Current Circuit
I have the following circuit (below). In order to calculate the current I1 as a function of the resistors and the voltage of the circuit, I'm doing the following:
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First-order RC circuit
I have a first-order RC circuit without source and capacitors initially charged to +5 V and -4 V as shown in the figure.
Initially charge sharing takes place between capacitors and v(a) = v(b) = 0.5 V....
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CAN Bus termination resistor in only 2 device connection
A termination resistor in CAN ( .. or other differential pair communication like RS485 ) is necessary to absorb reflection. The value is related to wire length, electrical frequency, baud rate. It ...
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Order of an RC circuit
The circuit contains two independent state variables but the output of the circuit simulated in LT spice shows a first-order response.
Where am I wrong?
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Resistor Power Rating and Pulses
I'm really confused with resistor power rating and pulses. I'm trying to determine the power rating of a resistor that will receive pulses of potentially 40 volts for 15 milliseconds. During this ...
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Understanding pull-up/down resistors for a GPIO pin
I'm a total beginner, trying to find my way through basic electronics... I went over some written material and YouTube courses, but there is something I don't think I get right.
Consider my case - I ...
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Why does voltage decrease as resistor increases?
As you can see in the images below, when I increase the resistor value from 200 Ω to 2 kΩ, the voltage at the node Vd suddenly decreases.
Why is this so?
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Changing LED from blue to yellow (car ambient lighting) - what is the purpose of the resistors?
I've got what looks like a fairly simple circuit I've pulled from a car door card.
It provides variable brightness ambient lighting in blue, which I want to change to yellow for aesthetic reasons.
I'm ...
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Three LEDs on consecutively with different time intervals
The title is referring to a youtube video if a 555 and CD4017 led larson scanner but this circuit only allows the LED to be on at the same time interval.
Is there a circuit which can help to activate ...
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Series/Parallel Resistor Association
My question is very direct. I understand the definitions and formulas involved in the association of resistors in both series and parallel, but when solving the circuit below, I don't quite understand ...
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What value resistor is this? [duplicate]
I'd like to change this resistor from a main board but I'm not sure about its value.
It's marked as 0.2R in the datasheet (so 0.2 Ω) but following the color code it should be 22.88 Ω.
Am I right or I'...
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Phantom power voltage source high resistor [closed]
In PCB design I every time feel fear in my power trace included high impedance section or not? I've shocked on about 6k resistance putted on +48v of phantom power. I've heard this large resistor is ...
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What value of resistor is needed to limit current to 0.5 ampere in a 12V DC circuit?
I have a 12V DC motor that uses 1 ampere from a 12V battery. I want to limit it to 0.5 ampere because it runs too fast on 1 ampere. I know that I can achieve that by adding a resistor but the question ...
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How to attach cable to a solder eyelet? [duplicate]
I believe that's what such connector is called. I want to attach 18 awg wire to it. Is slide on terminal the best choice?
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How to make two different frequency square waves stay in sync with each other at all times? [closed]
Is there circuit to make two square waveforms of different frequency be in sync with each other at all times as shown and not drift over time?
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LED driver resistors
I'm designing a circuit using an LED driver that is intended for RGB LEDs and uses a resistor to set the current for the constant current supply.
On the LED datasheet, each color is tested at ...
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Is this resistor manufactured by Piher?
I am attempting to determine if this resistor was made by Piher or not.
The red color and glossy finish makes me think it was, however almost all the other Piher resistors I have seen have a different ...
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Is this resistor metal film or carbon film?
I am trying to determine if this resistor is metal or carbon film?
Traditionally most of the metal film resistors I've seen have been blue, while most of the carbon film I've seen have been light ...
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Use wirewound resistor as load
I want to use an array of ceramic wirewound resistor in series and parallel as the load of an 80W boost converter with the output of 400volts dc. Is it suitable to use 8 numbers of 10W resistors as ...
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What circuit for the following input and output?
What circuit can I use to generate the following waveform, preferably using discrete components like transistors and resistors, but not ICs?
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Question on Resistor and Capacitor Arrangement & Power Supply
I'm using this PHY
My questions:
Is it OK, if I connect 1uF and 1000pF capacitor on the VDDCR pin instead of the recommendation of "1uF & 470pF"? Higher capacitance on the power rail ...
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What does a star symbol under a resistor indicate?
What does the star under the resistors R16, R17 and R18 indicate?
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Determine the min/max resistance of an SMD variable resistor
I want to determine my minimum and maximum resistance rating for my variable resistor but failed to find the relevant information in the datasheet (this might be an issue more 'noobs' might have, ...
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Can I run resistor at a power higher than rated if I have external cooling?
Say I have a 1 ohm 100 W resistor that can work properly in still air. I now want to run it at 150 W, but I am also using a strong fan to cool it down to its usual temperature. Is this okay?
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How to avoid square wave parasitic oscillation?
I try to recreate the circuit from here using discrete components logic gates. How can I avoid these parasitic oscillations in a square wave in one of its outputs?
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What is a safe amount of resistance required for a 9V battery?
I am new to electrical circuits and created the following circuit using falstad:
With a 9V battery, what is the least resistance (instead of the 220k resistor) required to:
Complete the circuit
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Pull up and down resistors at the same time
I have an I2C circuit with a 4.7 kohm pull-up resistor for each line. I think it might be a too strong (too small in value) resistor and the data isn't read properly. The processor I'm using has the ...
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Do I need a resistor for my doorbell wiring?
I bought a video doorbell that runs on battery and "trickle-charges" from the doorbell chime's wiring. But my street is so busy that the battery died in under a day. The support forum for ...
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Inductor and Capacitor 3-digit exponent value codes: is there a standard?
I've seen the standard NNX exponential value code where NN are the significant digits and X ...
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Current limiter for VOD3120AB
I want to supply VOD3120AB with a voltage of 24v/2A from Power Supply. What is the value of the Resistor that I must add to the VCC of the VOD3120AB so that the VOD3120AB works properly?
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How to select current sense resistors for ir2136 ITRIP signal
Looking at the datasheet of the IR2136 it suggests this little resistor network as input for the ITRIP pin.
https://www.infineon.com/dgdl/Infineon-IR213-DS-v01_00-EN.pdf?fileId=...
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How is MOSFET gate resistor chosen?
I have been doing research on MOSFETS. I see that in a typical circuit that includes a MOSFET and a Driver IC, there is a gate resistor. I have done research on this gate resistor and I am aware that ...
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12V on 24V PSU with Buck and Resistor
I have a 0.08A 12V fan that I'd like to run on a 24V PSU. I have a 1/4W resistor kit with several different resistor values and a max input 23V buck converter. Can I add a resistor in series before ...
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