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Suddenly I have some confusion again. Sorry for being an idiot. I know no one likes an idiot. Haha. I've been reading about and from what I read, an electron itself does not actually gain energy and the electron itself does not actually do work. This does not match what you said and I'm not...

Which do you recommend then?

Thanks a ton!. By particles, I meant electrons.Can you substitute the word electron for charges? Are they the same? When we are talking about voltage, we are talking about ONE particle and the energy it takes to go from one point in a circuit to another point in a circuit? Or in the same...

Hello everyone, I know electronics pretty well. I'm pretty good with that, but my physics and chemistry understanding of what is going on is a little weak. I'm trying to do a good Youtube video on Ohm's law and I want to have a solid foundation to my understanding. Not just V = IR, but...

Well thank you very much. That helped a lot.

This isn't homework. I've been thinking. If I have say a 1kg mass and I want to accelerate it at 1m/s^2 for 10m, I would calculate the work to be done as 10J. Force = 1kg x 1m/s^2 = 1N Work = 1N x 10m = 10J I hope that is correct so far. But what confuses me is power. Power is...

I built an Arduino board from scratch and I am dying to test it out, but I have nothing to hook it up to my computer with. I have a spare Serial port on the back of my computer, but since Serial uses 10V, I need to build a very simple circuit that converts the 5V from the Arduino to the 10V for...

Thank you very much. I wasn't sure exactly what was going on there.

Am I the only person who gets really nitty-gritty about component selection? Well probably not, but I am having a bit of trouble picking out my power management ICs. I am building a dual rail power supply. I guess you could call it that. It can do +/-12V and +/- 5V. It may be useful somewhere...

I suppose its much cheaper to run higher voltage into your house, but wow, that seems really dangerous.

Thanks you have very clear descriptions.

Thank you very much aks786. I read about 50 pages on transformers yesterday before I crashed for the night, in hopes of trying to make a little bit of sense. Here's the one thing I am not getting. I understand how transformers work but on the schematic it says 240V. I live in the US and is not...

Primary voltage on the transformer can be up to 35V?

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Hello, About me...so you know where I am coming from. If you don't want to read, skip to the end-ish... I'd like to start off my saying that I know next to nothing about electronics although I am eagerly reading the All New Electronics Self-Teaching Guide right now and it is confusing but...