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    significannce of 20LOg

    www.edaboard.com ftopic239264 I use to always think of power dbs as 3 db is twice the power and voltage dbs as 6 db is twice the voltage until a college pointed out that dbs were dbs there. Asking if the db figure is a power or voltage is meaningless If the voltage increases X2 ie 6 db the...
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    why FM is preffered for high frequency and AM for low ?????

    Re: why FM is preffered for high frequency and AM for low ?? AM is generally used at lf and FM above 30 Mhz. However CB radio was 27 Mhz AM and when it came to UK it was on FM the main reason for this was that the FM transmittion caused much less interfearence on systems- an old tv or amplifier...
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    Ceramic Disc, RFI and Safety Capacitors

    Mains filter inputs have capacitors X and Y class accross the mains and from mains to earth . One class is suposed to fail open and the other closed- I hace experienced the ones to eart which should fail open going low Z and smoking
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    how to vary the speed of a dc motor?

    vary the speed of dc motor I had a 2 wire DC drill that could speed control ! the speed measurement was achieved by looking at the current pulses and the drive modified to maintain the required speed for varying loads. Normally 3 wires ( or some form of feedback) would be used
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    lithium polymer charger

    2 cell lipo charger schematic I think that lithium chargers have to be carefully designed as if over charging occurs the battery can explode etc this is why 90 % of charge will be achieved in the 1 st hour then full charge is achieved in another 1 hour. At least Ni MH and Ni Cad vent and...
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    Suggest me a fingerprint scanner

    Re: fingerprint scanner There are finger print safes available quite cheaply - B and Q and Woolworths stock them Also many USB memory sticks now include fingerprint scanning security- Perhaps this later system could be adapted as an identifier rather than for access
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    Tektronix 2430 User and Service Manual

    tektronix 2430 service manual I am aware the 2445 have problems with the U800 horizontal scan chip- the 2430 has diagnostic errors on turn on on many of the tested functions- are these hard to fix?

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