More about Components (173)

1-02-2006 | Newcomers to this magazine quite often send us emails with lots of questions about the component choice for projects described in the magazi...

1-07-2005 | This is a tip we think you’ll appreciate: the large mail-order firms have a lot of information on their sites that can be quite handy even i...

1-04-2004 | Audio lovers will no doubt drool over the new Elektor preamp with digital control published in this issue. This, of course, calls for a matc...

1-12-2003 | The Maxim MAX 6665 (www.maxim-ic.com) provides a complete temperature-dependent fan controller. It can switch fans operating at voltages of...

1-07-2003 | A notch for a narrow frequency band of a few per cent or even less normally requires close-tolerance components. At least, that’s what we th...

1-06-2003 | One thing has characterised the electronics industry since the change from valves to solid-state devices — both components and products have...

1-12-2002 | Building a square-wave oscillator using only three components is always a desirable accomplishment when space is tight, and if you can achie...

1-05-2001 | What do capacitors, electret microphones and passive infrared sensors have to do with one another? It is often interesting to go back to fir...

1-11-2000 | Many readers phone and write us with questions about components. Typical questions include: who’s the manufacturer of that IC, and where can...

1-07-1999 | Crystals for operation above 20 MHz are invariably cut to an overtone (harmonic), which may be the third, fifth, or seventh. In other word...