This article assumes the reader has knowledge in the following areas: Ohm’s Law Series Circuits Parallel Circuits Series Parallel Circuits Alternating Current (AC) Trigonometry Inductive Reactance Capacitive Reactance Impedance When we discussed DC circuits, we assumed a constant voltage output from a DC source. In this discussion our voltage source outputs a sine wave with ...
Recently, my wife’s 1996 Honda Accord’s A/C stopped working. Well, not quite stopped working. It only worked on the highest setting. Since it was still blowing air through, but only had one speed, I was able to determine it was the blower motor resistor. For this job I recommend having a ratchet screwdriver set on ...
You might not know anything about electrical wiring and its components but it’s actually very simple. I have went through two years of pre-engineering and we worked with the basics of electrical components and even made projects where we had to wire things up and solder them. I learned a lot about electrical wiring and ...
If you are a fan of the crime drama you are going to love this, I have always been curious of the legitimacy and accuracy of the lie detector, mostly enticed by how to apply it, and the criminals who some how manage to beat the device, but that’s another story. After hours of scouring ...
This article is intended for those who are interested in basic electrical theory. The first part reviews the laws of series and parallel circuits. The second part explains the series-parallel circuit. A Review: The Laws Of Series Circuits In a series circuit containing two resistors and powered by a battery, only one electrical path exists ...
As is observed in all forms of matter possessing adequate energy to undergo a transition in phase, an additional quantity of heat energy, known as the latent heat, must be emitted or absorbed by a substance in order to rearrange the molecular bonding pattern of the substance to that of its newly synthesizing phase. Within ...
This article covers resistors, capacitors and inductors in AC circuits. It assumes that the reader knows the following: Ohm’s Law Nature of Alternating current (AC) Series Circuits Parallel Circuits Capacitors Inductors Basic Trigonometry Algebra As discussed in my article on the nature of alternating current, the voltage and current from an AC source are constantly ...