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Saturday, March 28th, 2009
An Antenna/coupler saying?
There is a joke, or saying, when it comes to designing an oscillator or amplifier:
“amplifiers oscillate, and oscillators amplify”
The statement describes the fact that, when attempting to design one, there are many pitfalls that cause you to have the other happen. Usually when designing an amplifier oscillations are your enemy, and you tune them out [...]
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Flux Capacitors
One of my favorite things to point out to friends of mine is this fact:
Remember in Back to the Future (I, II, and III) Doc Brown used a “flux capacitor” to travel through time? Well, what if I told you that every capacitor is a flux capacitor?
Well that’s true. As a simple example, say [...]