The drive to increase efficiency and reduce the size of switching power supplies has proliferated into just about every aspect of industrial, consumer, and lighting electronics. The simple step-down ...

As a fledgling electronics buff I gathered together the usual hodgepodge of spare parts, old TV's and all the other electrical odds and ends that youngsters bitten by that particular bug seems to ...

Why Coils Resist Change. The less often used of the passive components, the humble and mysterious inductor is the subject of ...

Examine a traditional Hartley oscillator circuit, and you’ll note its trademark: a tapped inductor that determines the frequency of oscillation and provides oscillation-sustaining feedback. Although ...