Recent content by Adrian Collings

I don't, I did think of doing this but I kept thinking to myself that the transistor really shouldn't be overheating anyway.

Brilliant advice, thank you very much.

I am in third year so really just what the university has thrown at me so far. We are building a device that can accurately hover a ping pong ball at a certain height whilst measuring what height it is at. It's pretty cool I just hope I can get it done on time.

Okay so I am having this problem with a transistor overheating in a motor control circuit and I am not exactly sure why it is overheating. There is a PWM signal being used to power the transistor from an MSP430 microcontroller. I am using a standard 1N004 kickback diode for the motor and an...

Hi there I am an electrical engineering student from strathclyde who loves getting angry when my projects don't go to plan!