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Highest scoring answer that outscored an accepted answer with score of more than 10 by more than 2x. This badge can be awarded multiple times.
Awarded 82 times.
Necessity of an external watchdog timer
Awarded Jun 26 at 8:25
Debugging a multilayer PCB?
Awarded May 5 at 1:18
What is this flange with wire windings in a conical / horn shape?
Awarded Jan 9 at 18:18
What is the point of signal amplification if noise is also amplified?
Awarded Dec 8, 2023 at 14:05
Resistance Vs Impedance?
Awarded Oct 3, 2023 at 15:22
4 parallel LED's connected on a breadboard
Awarded Jul 5, 2023 at 21:31
How to start building lithium-ion battery charger?
Awarded Jun 29, 2023 at 11:56
Why use complex numbers to represent amplitude and phase of AC
Awarded Jun 27, 2023 at 18:42
Why are kiloohm resistors more used in op-amp circuits?
Awarded Jun 8, 2023 at 15:16
Why don't we use the 7805 for car phone chargers?
Awarded May 3, 2023 at 18:52
LED dies under a 3.75V lithium-ion battery, but works fine with a 9V PP3
Awarded Oct 25, 2022 at 16:16
How are current and voltage related to torque and speed of a brushless motor?
Awarded Aug 27, 2022 at 9:09
MCU programming - C++ O2 optimization breaks while loop
Awarded Dec 1, 2021 at 5:56
When is a MOSFET more appropriate as a switch than a BJT?
Awarded Nov 3, 2021 at 5:03
Electrical reason for the minimum altitude (-50 feet) in the computer specs?
Awarded Oct 6, 2021 at 22:11
Why are most COB LEDs physically yellow?
Awarded Jun 15, 2021 at 13:21
Maximum Typical and minimum into datasheets. What is the distribution?
Awarded May 27, 2021 at 20:55
Why would a Intel 8080 chip be destroyed if +12 V is connected before −5 V?
Awarded May 6, 2021 at 12:36
What do these two PNP transistors do in this power circuit?
Awarded Mar 8, 2021 at 0:40
Why would an AND gate need six transistors?
Awarded Dec 1, 2020 at 15:35
How to read Scaled Graphs?
Awarded Oct 15, 2020 at 16:25
When is a MOSFET more appropriate as a switch than a BJT?
Awarded Oct 15, 2020 at 4:55
Why does voltage drop across resistance contradict Ohm's law?
Awarded Aug 12, 2020 at 15:57
How did this capacitor survive having a nail driven through it?
Awarded Jul 24, 2020 at 23:51
What's the catch with FRAM?
Awarded Jul 14, 2020 at 13:26
Doesn't using resistors serial to LEDs all the time waste a lot of energy?
Awarded May 10, 2020 at 17:10
Why is electricity consumption billed in watts and not amperes?
Awarded Apr 7, 2020 at 14:40
Necessity of an external watchdog timer
Awarded Feb 27, 2020 at 14:20
How to design the gate resistor value?
Awarded Jan 22, 2020 at 3:35
C - wrapping globals in a struct?
Awarded Jan 10, 2020 at 18:15
Why are Alkaline, NiMH, and Li-ion AA measured differently (mAh, mWh, etc)?
Awarded Jan 1, 2020 at 15:10
Why are some AC outlets and plugs polarized?
Awarded Nov 23, 2019 at 11:00
Why do many laptops run on 19 volts?
Awarded Oct 27, 2019 at 9:00
Where do overtones in a 555 generated square wave come from?
Awarded Oct 23, 2019 at 12:10
'Leftover' voltage when using constant current
Awarded Oct 19, 2019 at 8:40
Can someone identify this old round connector?
Awarded Oct 1, 2019 at 20:40
Will using a resistor in series with a LED to control its voltage increase the total energy expenditure?
Awarded Aug 18, 2019 at 9:40
Memory capability and powers of 2
Awarded Jul 26, 2019 at 17:30
Why is every address in a micro-controller only 8 bits in size?
Awarded Jul 24, 2019 at 14:50
Difference between High- and Low- side switching of power?
Awarded Jul 8, 2019 at 0:20
How can I wire a 9-position switch so that each position turns on one more LED than the one before?
Awarded Apr 25, 2019 at 17:45
Why do we use polarized capacitors?
Awarded Apr 9, 2019 at 0:45
Can you harvest electrical energy from the air?
Awarded Apr 1, 2019 at 20:50
How can I tell the size of a barrel power connector?
Awarded Mar 13, 2019 at 22:35
Writable area on a PCB
Awarded Feb 16, 2019 at 6:40
JTAG vs SWD debugging
Awarded Dec 13, 2018 at 14:35
What is the name of these little plastic things that protect wires from being cut into by the sharp edges of a drilled hole?
Awarded Nov 14, 2018 at 13:15
Poles and Zeros in English
Awarded Nov 11, 2018 at 13:45
What are the highest DC and AC voltages or currents that can be considered as safe?
Awarded Oct 18, 2018 at 20:15
Why is digital serial transmission used everywhere? i.e. SATA, PCIe, USB
Awarded Aug 31, 2018 at 15:45
Measuring feline capacitance
Awarded Aug 17, 2018 at 15:20
LTspice: Vary a resistor's value over time
Awarded Aug 3, 2018 at 15:20
Help learning from a mistake connecting an oscilloscope
Awarded Dec 12, 2017 at 23:02
What software was used for drawing this schematic?
Awarded Nov 16, 2017 at 14:46
What's this driving circuit of LED?
Awarded Nov 9, 2017 at 12:21
In an NMOS, does current flow from source to drain or vice-versa?
Awarded Oct 19, 2017 at 0:12
How to create measurement points on a PCB for diagnostics?
Awarded Aug 4, 2017 at 18:21
Using CPU heat to generate electricity
Awarded Jun 11, 2017 at 14:31
How to solder wires on Li-ion cell phone batteries?
Awarded Apr 27, 2017 at 7:06
LED power consumption in theory and reality
Awarded Mar 15, 2017 at 22:51
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