Noise generators are very useful devices. They are used in test equipment, random number generators, etc. Usually, designers use special Zener noise diodes (at very low current) and transistors (with ...

A September 2005 power outage that affected two million people in the California Southland was initiated when workers cut live electrical wires after consulting erroneous design drawings, but it was ...

An aerospace company I worked for supplied the electric power systems for a number of turboprop aircraft that formed the backbone of a regional airline fleet. They can carry 50 or more passengers over ...

Is it possible to design an unconditionally stable linear voltage regulator? In fact, many believe that most regulator ICs are unconditionally stable. The answer is both simple and complex, if it is ...

Ed Spears is a technical marketing manager in Eaton’s Critical Power Solutions division. With more than 40 years in the power systems industry, Ed has experience in UPS systems testing, EV charging ...

A former coworker friend sent me a Tektronix 3-slot mainframe and several plug-in modules (Fig. 1). The TM500-series mainframes are 1970s vintage, but like a lot of old test equipment, can still work ...