| Connecting dropping resistors in series with resistive loads often leads to significant energy dissipation. In AC circuits, using dropping c...
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| What do capacitors have in common with wires in water or fingers touching metallic surfaces? Quite a lot, as the author discovered with his...
| Capacitive touch interfaces really took hold after their success in the Apple iPod with its rotary wheel. Since then, touch buttons have mad...
| What do capacitors have in common with wires in water or fingers touching metallic surfaces? Quite a lot. You can use skin impedance for a v...
| The proposed measurement principle is based on constant current, making the measurement completely insensitive to the series resistance. Th...
| With the compliments of the Elektor Labs and Editorial teams, here comes another fresh-out-of-the-lab article that's free to download by all...
| The Capaci-Meter is a capacitance meter with a retro-style ‘Dekatron’-type arrangement of LEDs to represent two digits. It is not designed t...
| Scientists at KIT have developed a new control method for switching power supplies, which enables the replacement of reservoir electrolytic...
| As one of the oldest editors at Elektor I have witnessed with horror the decline of knowledge about, and precise expressivity about, passive...
| A new series of MKP film capacitors optimized for use with AC voltages with high ripple currents features extreme robustness as they pass a...