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The DiSEqC (Di[gital] S[attelite] Eq[uipment] C[ontrol] specification (bus_spec.pdf within https://www.eutelsat.com/files/PDF/DiSEqC-documentation.zip) describes a tone-based serial data bus that can ...

I'm currently working on a personal project where, a part of it, is having a spark plug discharge with a time delay after a signal is sent. Below is the schematic I've come up with so far but I'm not ...

The capacitor was allowed to discharge completely when the transistor was activated with the 3.4 V. The capacitor is allowed to charge again when the conduction from the 5 V line through the ...

What will be the effect of Electrical arcing (between phases or between phase and neutral) in a 415V three phase system in the downstream voltage... Will it just act as a load ( let's say the arcing ...

I am a little confused on how this W171Dip-7 relay works. I know 2 is pos 5v and 6 is neg 5v. Looks like the signal from 1/14 will go to 8 / 7 when closed. But i cant tell if 13 is tied to 14 or ...

Below is a problem I made up and did. Is my solution wrong? Problem: Attached is following map for the function \$f\$. We want a minimal cost expression using only and, or and not gates. The cost ...

If an 8,500 transistor Z80 microprocessor were manfactured using 7nm transistors rather than 1970s era 6µm, how small would it be?

Recently I found this PCB in a electronics junk bin. It's said that it's a photodiode preamp, but I was not able to find the datasheet or any information about the board. Since the PCB looks neatly ...

When attempting to construct a miniature laser beam profiler with the Omnivision OV7740 CMOS detector and an Arduino Due, I am running into some problems with FIFO reading/writing. From the datasheet, ...

I haven't taken an electrical engineering class for about 2 years now and never thought I would need to use it again. Now I need to build a 5V to 8V boost converter and I need help. I have done hours ...

How do I go about calculating the voltage output for an operational amplifier when the only connection to the the voltage source is through the operational amplifier itself? For example, the diagram ...

I'm trying to create parallel to RS-232 serial converter using standard logic (serial transmitter only, no serial receive functionality). To get the clock signal my idea was to get a 7.3728MHz ...

I've come across a circuit that has a diode in parallel with a power switch that's controlling a BLDC motor circuit. I was told that it's a flyback diode to prevent voltage spikes from an inductive ...

Finding gain and phase margins from Nyquist plots is basically finding the margin of change in gain and phase beyond which the plot encircles -1, respectively, with the assumption that the Nyquist ...

One of my friends sent me this question but I have never seen anything like that, anyone knows what is it or how can I solve it? Question asks: what's the value of alpha and calculate the power of ...

I want to turn a load like light on for a certain time when one of elevator buttons pressed say button 1 and while the button pressed the load should be on. In the figure below circuit 1 describe how ...

In my textbook, it is given that \$\mathcal {E} = -L\frac{\Delta I}{\Delta t}\$. The graph of resistor voltage (\$V_R\$) and inductor voltage (\$V_L\$) in a series RL AC circuit is given similar to ...

I am doing a small project with ESP32 and HX711 and I need to have 3 load cells. Like this one: I am totally newbie in electronics, my ground is programming. What I found are projects with 1, 2 or ...

I have a byte of data as input and each bit represents the state of an led. The pins that control the leds are spread out and on different ports. I have C code that changes the state of 6 leds. ...

I have this non inverting op-amp circuit: I would like to calculate the output with the Op-amp noise impact. I can easily find the voltage output, but only if I assume there is no noise. How to do ...

I'm trying to charge three capacitors by using my country's net voltage of 230V (60Hz) AC. The net voltage is connected to a diode bridge, which thereby results in approximately 325V DC. Each ...

I am currently looking at a 32 inch 310 watt LED light bar for my 2010 Honda CRV. The light bar I am looking at is https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MCNYXFT/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_JpKPDbTR3J8R4. The wiring ...

my question is how you can convert the bloc diagram which have a disturbance input to a state space representation and how you can calculate the controllability matrix then if you can give me any ...

What kind of frequency does a DC brush motor generate? There are a few explanations online as to what causes EMI in DC brush motors (commutator sparking for example) and how to reduce it, but no ...

I am using pidtool in Matlab and it shows two graphs One is tuned response and other is baseline response as shown highlighted in linked photo So here what is meant by baseline response? Does ...

Is there any issues with using low impedance mode on a multimeter for day to day testing on mains voltage 240Vac or if this mode should only be used when testing for phantom voltage? Is there any risk ...

I made simple frequency generator circuit with Ne555 but almost in every circuit Ne555 IC burns after few use. Ne555 starting to heat up then outputs weird signals , if I don't stop the supply Ne555 ...

I am a fresh college graduate and have recently started working as analog design engineer. I am working on 22nm FDSOI technology, And characterizing this device has been trouble for me. The device is ...

I am trying to integrate some EL wire into a standard circuit but having trouble - I have some standard copper wire with a main supply and want that to run into an inverter (as I need one) and then a ...

Earth's magnetic poles are known to have inverted in the past. How are commonly used circuits or component of consumer electronics (from energy production/transportation to TVs, mobile phones and PCs) ...

I face to some issue with my prototype based on the HV9961 (see picture). I replaced L1 by a 1.8mH power inductor and R1 by a 68k resistor. Those values came from HV9961 datasheet formulas for a 170V ...

I'm working on a specific RGB to YPbPr (component) converter. It is supposed to connect old consoles to a modern flat 240p supportive TV. However I have an issue with luma Y output part. Here is the ...

I am trying to simulate PID controllers in MATLAB Simulink, but I am bit confused by the term "transient behaviour" in how its extreme highlighted forms (aggressive and robust) will affect the system ...

I have a card with a Dynatron V35G fan sink on it. It looks like this: Now, this fan fits the card I'm using, but it is very noisy. I want to take the opportunity to try to improve my card and ...

I am doing I2C project with MPU6050 using STM32F4DISCOVERY board. The ADDR bit in SR1 register is clearing in one instruction execution without reading SR2 register. I am getting WHO_AM_I Register ...

I need help on how to calculate turns in flyback transformer for the above mentioned power supply. Now I know about designing Half bridge, full bridge and forward converters but I am unable to figure ...

What are the different schemes/logics for controllers? Only these 3 Pid controller , on-off controller and fuzzy controller ? Or there are also schemes/logics other than these above 3?

In our project, we developed and tested a auto-zero chopping op amps coupling with Sigma-delta ADC for low-frequency voltage signal measurement. Below is the FFT spectrum from the 1-bit data stream of ...

I am designing a pcb that gets used in 3 different products with 3 different voltage supplies. One uses 12VDC power brick, another 24VDC, another 48VDC. I am working on the new design for this pcb. In ...

I need some explanations about Linearity, Negative Feedback and Virtual Short for an ideal Operational Amplifier. Precisely, I have been always told that an operational amplifier with negative ...

I'm creating wireless game controller, but I have problem with sending data - should it be in polling mode or event based? For analog axes I think that polling is better. 100Hz or more polling rate, ...

Are all On-off controllers used for close loop control systems or can also be used for open loop control systems?

I have a Bottom Gate TFT transistor: W/l=320um Substrate: corning glass Gate: 60nm Molibdenum Dielectric: 350 nm Ta2O5 Semiconductor: 30nm IGZO S-D: Molibdenum 60nm It is wired like so (if anyone ...

How to do the sensor fusion using the 4 IMU sensors. Here, 4 IMU sensors are used to know the location of every point where the IMUs are placed? I need the location of the every point on a 3D graph ...

I see in the guides to standard Bipolar Transistor circuits (emitter-follower, common emitter amplifier), they always say: Choose a quiescent current of 1mA. How is this value chosen? I look at the ...

I recently bought a 36V BLDC motor controller (the $10 ones from ebay) without taking into consideration that when fully charged my battery voltage is actually 42V. I found a similar question where ...

I've read that fiducial should be placed on the corners of the PCB. And that no more 3 should be placed. Below are some questions I can't seem to find online. 1) Would it be a problem if there are ...

I have some understanding of general electronics but now I want to learn about actual electronic schematics. For this I look at some complex reference designs to somehow get an understanding because ...

I have a task where I need to implement a filter circuit (active) for the following transfer function: $$G(s)=\frac{(s-5447)}{(s-961.3)}$$ So, we have one pole and one zero. The bode plot is as ...

I want to have a receiver/transmitter to be able to operate up to 2-5 meters maximum lower the better is this possible? if not what is another way to have wireless communication in this range? Im ...