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Understanding MOSFETs: 12 Essential Questions Answered

Reading Time: 16 minutesIntroduction The Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) plays a pivotal role in countless applications in electronics ranging from power management to digital circuits. Unlike traditional transistors, MOSFETs are voltage-controlled devices, offering advantages such as high input impedance, fast switching speeds, and low power consumption. Their operation is based on the voltage applied to the gate terminal, […]

Dustin Hodges 3 months agoMarch 9, 2025

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Understanding MOSFETs: Key Concepts and Practical Examples

Reading Time: 18 minutesIntroduction to MOSFETs Let’s talk about a specific type of field-effect transistor (FET); the Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor. Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor is a mouthful, so let’s just call it MOSFET or by its plural form MOSFETs. MOSFETs are a type of transistor used for switching and amplifying electronic signals. They are crucial components in modern electronics, found in everything from power […]

Dustin Hodges 3 months agoFebruary 10, 2025

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Ohm’s Law: Simply Explained

Reading Time: 9 minutesOhm’s Law is one of the most fundamental principles in electricity and electronics, and it’s what helps us to describe the relationship of the current through a conductor between two points in a circuit and its direct proportionality to the electric potential difference, or voltage across those two points. potential difference: the difference in electric […]

Dustin Hodges 10 months agoMarch 10, 2025

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Ideal and Practical Voltage Sources

Reading Time: 8 minutesAn ideal voltage source is a source of constant voltage to a system, independent of any fluctuations of current. An ideal voltage source provides this constant voltage with 100 A practical voltage source is a device that supplies voltage to a system, yet unlike an ideal voltage source, has some internal resistance in series within […]

Dustin Hodges 11 months agoJanuary 1, 2025

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Multimeters in a Nutshell: What They Are, What They Can Do and How To Use Them

Reading Time: 6 minutesA multimeter is a testing device that measures electrical properties and provides readouts of values pertaining to the electrical property being measured. The multimeter is a tool used by hobbyists, by those in the electrical and electronics industry, and by people in other industries — where measurements of electrical properties such as voltage, current and […]

Dustin Hodges 11 months agoMarch 10, 2025