| Printed circuit board planes have a variety of uses. Let’s take a closer look and answer some common questions about them.
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| It looks like a regular transformer power supply except that there’s an extra inductive element called a saturable reactor drawn in one of t...
| In this third and closing installment we deal with custom BOM output goodies.
| Coaxial cable is usually the best way to connect radio equipment together but its practical upper limit is about 3 GHz before the cable and...
| Rather than tutoring on schematics and PCB tracks, let’s look at a less known but exciting feature of Cadsoft’s EAGLE: writing user language...
| Adding a Bill of Materials (BOM) to a DesignSpark Mechanical model is easy. Let’s see how to add one to the modified PCB enclosure that we a...
| It’s not accidental that coax (coaxial; co-axial) connectors are ideal for RF applications: after all, they surround the signal pin with a g...
| Silicon based rectifiers weren’t available for substantial currents in the 50’s and 60’s so selenium rectifiers were used instead. They are...
| The previous installment showed how to add a connector to a PCB model and then modify the enclosure for it. Now let’s add some dimensions to...
| It’s a good idea to start any design with a 3D mechanical model to determine the shape of the circuit board and to line up all of the connec...