With surface-mount components quickly becoming the norm, even for homebrew hardware, the resistor color-code can sometimes feel a bit old-hat. However, anybody who has ever tried to identify a ...

Pickering Interfaces has recently launched a family of PXI and PXIe programmable resistor modules that it says are its first ...

Ideal for automotive, aerospace, and medical testing, these modules are designed to simulate resistive sensors and faults, ...

This part is well-known by now, but we’ve seen lack-of-resistor failures in cheap devices aplenty, and the colloquial advice is “add 5.1 kΩ resistors”. You might be afraid to think it’s ...

Some resistor, capacitor networks are used to suppress transmission-line effects on high speed data lines in order to improve system performance and reduce the cost of passive components. Other RC ...

Learn how Zener diodes protect your devices from voltage spikes and ensure stable performance across a range of applications ...

A rheostat is similar to a potentiometer, but handles more power. See resistor. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

For signal integrity in high-speed PCBs, use a PCB material with a low-loss tangent and a low dissipation factor. Materials ...

If your radio already has a phono input, can you just attach your MP3 player to it via a cable? Yes and no.

Moving the position of the slider on this resistor, changes the length of wire in the circuit which changes the resistance. A variable resistor is used in some dimmer switches and volume controls.

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XP Power has released two baseplate-cooled dc-dc converter series with 14 to 160Vdc (12:1) inputs. Nominally running from 72V ...