Questions tagged [load]
An electrical load is an electrical component or portion of a circuit that consumes electric power. This is opposed to a power source, such as a battery or generator, which produces power.
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Bulk power markets hour ending convention why?
Is there an engineering explanation for the hour ending (HE) convention common to US Independent System Operators (ISO)? For example, hover over any MISO real time market data and they will show the ...
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How to suppress noise in my circuit
I illustrated what my circuit do as you see. Switching frequency is 800 Hz. When I increase the load, a noise is heard from my circuit.
Here is my drain oscillocope view in frequency domain. What can ...
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How to determine the load requirement for a 24 VDC power supply
I work in the automotive industry. I got a project to add extra hardware to a particular line. The current hardware requires 24 V, 70 W.
We have a power supply unit "Power One HE-24V-7.2A" ...
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Typical load examples for RL and RC series and parallel circuits
I have already learned theoretical description of RL and RC circuits and their behavior. But now with a benefit of hindsight I have never truly learned about typical real world loads that have similar ...
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Crystal Load capacitors & ESR
In the KSZ8863 datasheet, the crystal specification is given (table 9-3), page 85.
Here the ESR is specified to 40ohms with no minimum nor maximum marking.
Load capacitance is specified to a max of ...
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Estimating load capacitance when connecting two opamps?
I plan to use the OPA657 as a charge sensitive pre-amplifier for measuring the output from a reverse biased PIN photodiode. I would like to further amplify the signal using a wideband EL5163 opamp. ...
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Does creep always occur with load cells, or is there an optimum weight capacity?
I want to make a scale which I will place under a wood stove (downdraft gasifier) to measure the amount of wood that goes into the wood stove. The amount of wood which is being measured will be ...
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NFC tag antenna detection without an NFC chip
I need to build an application to detect an NFC antenna without an NFC passively powered chip.
As we know, we can detect an NFC tag by powering the NFC chip inside this tag. It will then broadcast its ...
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Load sensor - to sense/track a ball movement
Wondering if anyone can give me some directional steer on a project I’m working on for Uni.
In short, My team are working on a project where we want to track the movement of a croquet ball from one ...
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Calibrate for an inaccurate 50 ohm load in a DIY Vector Network Analyser (VNA) based on a VSWR RF bridge
I have built a "DIY VNA" using a frequency generator, an SDR receiver, a RF Reflection Bridge and a 50 ohm load. This is used to measure "VSWR values" of antennas to see what frequencies they are ...
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Better polarization for push-pull
I have a circuit that used to drive a lighter load.
I need to increase the current it manages to drive (and mainly the turn off time).
In the following schematic I show what I want to do: the old ...
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Draw relation of rotation speed and output power of PMAC generator with brake resistor
I would like to draw a graph showing the relationship between rotation speed and power of an ideal Sinus PMAC generator
with a brake resistor R(load) to be defined
controlled via a 4Q Controller ...
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Low-Side Driver Not Sourcing Current from Load to GND
I have a circuit with an electronic load in parallel with an optocoupler and a low-side N-channel MOSFET connected to the circuit. The low-side N-channel MOSFET driver is supposed to source current ...
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Pond auto top-up project switch failure issues
I am installing a system to top up my pond when the water level drops below a certain level using a solenoid valve. I decided on 3 float switches - low level switch starts the filling, upper level ...
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Can I connect low-power resistors to achieve a high-power resistive load?
I've designed an 80 W 400 V PFC boost converter and I want to test it with resistive load. but I couldn't find a low-cost high power (20 to 80 watts) resistor in the range of 2k to 10k ohm. Is there ...
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