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  1. I had wondered about this myself :P. I had assumed it was probably RF, but I had also considere doing a similar thing (in a much slower moving rotation) with brushes kind of like the brushes in a motor.
  2. Well, ordering from the internet is probably your best bet. Google Digikey, Newark, or Mouser Electronics. But, if you live in or near a metropolitan area, I'm sure you can look in the phone book yellow pages and with some luck, you might find an industrial electronics supplier or something. In Louisiana where I live I have several, but they are local stores.
  3. heathtech

    FM Radio

    All inductors have coils, by definition.
  4. I'm not exactly sure what you need here, please go into more detail. As far as a wheatstone bridge goes, I can help you with that. Do you know what a strain gauge is? It is a pressure transducer that varies resistance in a linear fashion when pressure is applied, and can be installed on one side of a Wheatsone Bridge. Do you understand the function of a Wheatstone bridge? Do you need a tutorial on that? Please tell me what you understand and I can help you.
  5. Ok, go to an electronics supplier, radio shack will do for a beginner, and buy a variety of resistors, solder, a pencil soldering iron, a pack of 9v batteries, a 9volt connector (you know, pad thingy with male and female terminals and red and black wire sticking out. Matter of fact, buy two or three of them) Get some aligator clips if they have them, a roll of 18 AWG wire, and a cheap multimeter (volts,ohms,amps). All of this shouldn't cost more than 40 bucks and most of it will last a long time and through a lot of experimenting. Now, Here is an important formula for you to memorize if you don't already know it: Ohm's Law states E=IxR (e=voltage, I=current or Amps, R=resistance.) Google this topic or read about it on the forum. You HAVE to know this to understand electronics or anything electrical, including your home wiring. Also, Google and read about Series and Parallel Circuit arrangements. If you don't already know it, learn the difference between AC and DC, which can all be found on the internet. The rest is up to you in this experiment. I am going to post a drawing showing how to wire batteries up in parallel and in series, and how to connect a LOAD (important term) to the battery in series and in parallel. This is exactly where you need to start. If you are already past this stage, ignore this post and let us know more. You can print this file and try this experiment!
  6. It depends on how complicated you want your first circuit to be. Google for Variable regulated power supply schematics. I don't know how much you know by way of electronics theory, laws, etc. Tell us what you know about electronics and then someone can advise you. If your knowledge is small, I would start out with 9 volt batteries and some simple series/parallel resistor circuit arrangements, study the formulas for both, and measure the voltages across them with a voltmeter, which is a necessary piece of test equipment, and compare the formulas to the actual results. If you don't already have one, you can pick a cheap one up for around ten bucks. Again, expand on what you know in your next post!
  7. Well, flip flops are bistable multivibrators. An input trigger causes the two outputs to "flip-flop" states. The ouputs are usually labeled Q and /Q (not Q). There are two transistors inside the flip-flop arranged symetrically. The input trigger is applied to both at the same time, but due to very slight imbalances in the circuits, one will conduct first, making one output go low , and feeding back a signal to the base of the other transistor, which turns it off, in turn causing the other output to go high. I think I'm explaining that correctly. Even when the triggering pulse is removed, the circuit "latches" itself in that state, until another triggering pulse comes along and "flip-flops" the circuit again. This, in effect, becomes a storage for one bit of information.
  8. The Weller model#WES51 iron that I use is ESD safe. It is reasonably priced but not cheap, and I use it all the time with no ESD issues.
  9. feedback and control circuits and systems.
  10. Are you referring to 100 ohm platinum RTD temperature probes when you mention Pt100? If, so, what is the project? I know a few things about temperature control circuits and might be able to help.
  11. I have an idea for the 555 timer that might work. Please someone correct me if this is wrong. I don't want to post a mistake, but I wanted to figure it out and have someone correct me if I'm wrong:
  12. My guess is that you are driving the amplifier too hard, causing overmodulation. There is no amplifier with infinite gain, so if your signal is driving too hard, the peaks of the signal get chopped and cause distortion.
  13. I think everyone would tell you to be more specific and not to double post the same topic. At least provide some details.
  14. heathtech

    Can I ask this?

    Kids these days like to wire up all kinds of stuff on their automobiles (neon lights, stereo amps, crossovers) ...Maybe you can teach them how to do it without frying everything!
  15. Hey folks After several suggestions from other folks (2 guys named Len and L. Chung) on the net I have a new finished schematic to post. I tried putting caps on the motor, but that didn't do the trick. As you can see by the new schematic, I added a schmitt trigger and some caps on the board. The circuit is no longer skipping the hole intermittently. However, as Murphey would have it, a new, much smaller problem is occuring. When the circuit is first energizes, the motor oscillates quickly back and forth irrespective of the optical switch. After a minute give or take, everything lines out and it acts correctly. This problem is less troublesome, because I put a switch on the motor lead, and as long as I don't unplug the power supply, I can turn the motor on via the switch and it picks up where it left off. I suspect that the problem lies in the charge/discharge cycles of the caps somewhere. Maybe someone might see something I don't see. Thanks
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