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Crystal oscillator unbalanced external capacitors

The below lines are from AVR® Microcontroller Hardware Design Considerations (AN2519). "In noisy environments the oscillator can be crucially affected. If the noise is strong enough, the ...
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How to detect load is connected to a MOSFET?

How can I detect a load is connected to a MOSFET and report that back to the MCU? So the MOSFET can be ON or OFF, but I need to know in both situations if there's something connected or not. NOTE: if ...
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Shunt Burn Issue

I've this schematic, where I'm blinking output bulbs (21W @ 12VDC). Rate of blinking is 85 counts/min. The wave comes to be of 700ms. On time 350ms. In this 350ms of On time, initially I skip 50~100ms ...
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How do I power many devices off of a low voltage microcontroller?

I'm new to electronics. I have a GENIE 08 microcontroller, and I want to control multiple LEDs from one pin, and a few buzzers from another, and an LCD from one too. I am worried that the power ...
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Does a Microcontroller act as a Capacitive load or resistive?

I'm designing a unity gain buffer (IC MCP6002) and in the datasheet, it says that a small series resistor is required at the output, if the load is capacitive and is >100pF. The input of the buffer ...
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Difference between horn and power resistor?

I have a circuit where my microcontroller is turning off and on a heavy load using a power MOSFET (I've also tried it with a MOSFET and a relay which yielded the same results). When I use a power ...
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Is this ADC capable of better performance?

I am using ADS1231 to get values from a load cell,i am using the ADC in following configuration. i am powering the micocontroller and loadcell by 5Volt supply as shown in above image. i am getting the ...
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Chinese CC adjustable load microcontroller

I've bought recently a cheap adjustable load from AliExpress (see link). For the price, it's really decent. I use if to test LiPo batteries discharge. All in all, I'm really happy with it, but it ...
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Load switch correctly wiring

I need to use this load switch http://www.semicon.toshiba.co.jp/info/docget.jsp?type=datasheet&lang=en&pid=TCK106G . This load switch will be controlled by an MCU. Since at startup MCU have ...
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Micro-controller as a load

For my power-supply micro-controller is a load. How does this load behave like? is it resistive or capacitive or inductive load?
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Oscillator and output load

For the Ethernet application in my design using RMII interface, I need to drive two CMOS loads (two reference clock pins, one of a Freescale Kinetis K60 Microcontroller and one of a TI's PHY chip) ...
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Where does the current in a Dickson Charge Pump come from? Does the oscillator/PWM pin of a microcontroller also source current?

Well, I am making a small circuit which looks like this: When simulated, the load current gets up to about 200-280 mA no problem, so I want to implement this circuit in real life. My only problem is,...
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how to select capacitor for a crystal oscillator

Here is a 32 MHz crystal from one of TI's reference design The BOM list defines the crystal as ...
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Motor Control For Overload

I am using PIC 18F45K80 for four phase dc motor control operation. The maximum load current is 30 Amps. If it exceeds 30 Amps, I have to call stop_motor() function in my coding in order to switch off ...
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How to interface a digital scale strain gauge weight sensor with a microcontroller? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to interface a digital scale strain gauge weight sensor with a microcontroller How to interface a digital scale strain gauge weight sensor with a microcontroller? It is a ...
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