What is a Power Converter? Solid-state power converter are employed for obtaining the appropriate form of electrical energy such as direct current or adjustable-frequency alternating current (required to operate most…
Visual Display Units (VDUs): Large arrays of characters can be built up using alphanumeric devices, already discussed, but the number of connections and the complexity of the drive-logic circuitry increase…
Methods of Sweep Voltage Generation: It is not possible to achieve precise linearity in sweep voltages by electronic means, various methods of sweep voltage generation are enumerated below. 1. Exponential…
Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) - Block Diagram and its Workings: Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) - Most of us take the mains ac supply for granted and use it almost casually…
What is Focusing Device in Cathode Ray Oscilloscope and why it is required? Because of the mutual repulsion between the electrons, the convergent beam coming out from the accelerating anode…
Voltage Multipliers - Voltage Doublers, Triplers and Quadruplers Voltage multipliers is a modified capacitor filter circuit that delivers a dc voltage twice or more times of the peak value (amplitude)…
Construction of Phanotron: The constriction of a gas-filled diode or phanotron is similar to a vacuum diode except that the size of its electrodes is larger so as to conduct…
Explain Conduction in Gas: Explain Conduction in Gas - The introduction of small amount of gas into the electron evacuated tubes entirely changes the operating characteristics—materially giving in general a…