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Why does the high voltage side of transformers tend to burn out first?
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"Magic" AA batteries in a home device?
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Flyback Voltage Spikes Emitted From an Unprotected Relay
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Sequel of "Impedance Matching when the Transmitter, Line and Load...."
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Question: What do the different electrical ratings on push button switches mean?
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Explicit Calculation of Q Factor of Loaded Tuned Circuits
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How transmission lines deliver (established?) power from generator
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Heavy Amplifier Circuit Oscillation Happened
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Is transformer always 'source' to which current returns?
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Can Board B1 Be Used for Requirement R1 Without Modifications?
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Generator winding using diametrically opposed magnet.
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Can this comparator accept negative voltage as its negative supply?
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Receiver Circuit Question -- What role does this antenna capacitor play?
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Capacitive and Inductive Coupled EMI model
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AC Hipot Test on MOSFET: Can It Be Done?
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Justifying the peak closed loop gain of an op-amp circuit
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Questions About Choosing a Shunt Resistor
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How to make an audio processing device for noise reduction ?
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What happens when ON/OFF switch is in the midway?
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Resonance in transmission lines
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Resonant Frequency for a Coil-Only Antenna
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Does wire length difference create phase shift?
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A Question on Skin Effect and Eddy Currents
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LED/"LASER" Printers - How are +5000 LEDs addressed/controlled?
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Silvaco TCAD question -- adding texturing
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Optical vs Static Dielectric Constant for E-field Simulation
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Why can't the US make auto microprocessor chips?
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Impedance Matching when the Transmitter, Line and Load impedances are different
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Considering Earth ground vs floating ground in off grid solar
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Can Daisy Chaining Torque Motors Increase Power Output?
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Signals with the same frequency spectrums but different power levels
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Why Does the Filament Box in a CRT Electron Gun Have Multiple Pins?
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Interesting Links Between Faraday's EM Induction and EPR
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Need pointers on how to convert schematic to breadboard
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Analogy between EM wave reflection and S-parameters
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Straight wire inductance vs wire radius
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Current Path for Corona Discharge
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CMRR in open loop and closed loop configuration of opamp
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Voltage Balancing: Capacitive vs Resistive
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Why can a capacitor be charged by a battery (DC)?
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What causes variations in delay in coax cable of the same length?
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Equivalent Power In series and parallel combination
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Help me understand how this breadboard works?
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Changing a schematic diagram to British Standards (BS 3939)
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Understanding a Single Transistor Flyback Transformer Driver?
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Spectral Irradiance Calculation
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Step up (boost) MPPT charge controllers?
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Home-made electrical motor not running
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How Does the Micsig DP2003 Handle High Voltage Measurements?
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Magnetic field produced by linear current in COMSOL
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Explaining Voltage Split in Series Circuits with Ohm's Law
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Ansoft Maxwell, "cannot apply Current Excitation to non planar entity" error
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Eddy current position sensor circuit
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Inductor Circuit Simulation: Understanding Current Rise and Voltage Output
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How to wind a brushless motor (number of windings per stator)
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Using delicate 5V IC to toggle 12V device with MOSFET, Diode, resistor
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Silicon and Germanium semiconductor mixtures used in component manufacturing?
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Orientation of Electric Fields in a Bucking Coil Setup
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Setting Sheet Size of Lumped RLC in HFSS
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XLR Port Negative Pin: ZRL & Ground Explained
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US 2-phase conversion to EU one phase
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220Vac single pole, to work in US 220Vac double pole
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Powerline electrolysis hydrogen production
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Square Wave Magnetic Pulses Using Harmonic Addition
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What Explains the Lack of Current in a PN Junction at Equilibrium?
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Cable color standards in the US
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Calculating Input impedance of a CC amplifier
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Is there a way to improve CRT raster scan efficiency by scanning both ways?
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Have you seen this in-plug fuse arrangement before?
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Why a transformer cannot use DC (Ampere's law)?
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Reverse saturation current and leakage current in a BJT
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LTSpice functionalities regarding its Frequency Domain Analysis
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Can Radar Technology See Through Walls and Accurately Detect 3D Shapes?
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TV antenna dish: depth, f/D, or focal distance
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Basics of embedded (esp32) firmware upload
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AM, FM modulation, sidebands question
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Why are touchscreens becoming popular in test equipment (scopes, etc)?
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Why are there chips in USB chargers?
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How much bulge means a bad cap?
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How to Convert dBV and dBA to dBW?
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Why Does Power Cycling Cause Test Equipment Failures?
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Earth grounded, where does the current flow?
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How can I detect magnetic fields which are weaker than the Earth's?
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European data relay satellite system
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Need a force-like unit for classical particle system simulation
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Capacitor Extraction: Charging & Isolating Electrons
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Modifying generator windings to convert output from 220V to 55V.
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Efficiency of charging new and old Li-ion batteries in electric cars
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Permeability of Iron: How Does It Affect Electromagnets?
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What is the "observer" in PID control?
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Underground transmission power lines
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A Different Way to Achieve Electron Velocity Modulation in a Klystron
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Most stable, lowest noise voltage references?
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Is There Still a Market for Mechanical High Power DC/AC Generators?
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Delaying/shifting the start of a square wave inverter
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Maxwell 3D number of conductors question
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Plugging Power Strips Together in Series?
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Optimetrics simulation of a coil and moving permanent magnet in Ansys Maxwell
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Citation for origins of the Kloss formula
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AC power loss in lossy dielectric (capacitor) with DC-bias field
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