The Instrumentation for Furnace Control

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The figure below shows a typical basic furnace used to raise the temperature of a heat-transfer medium that is used…

Null vs. Deflection Type Instruments

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Null Instrument The null technique is one of the operational modes for a measuring instrument. A null instrument employs the…

Analog vs. Digital Sensors

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Analog Sensors Analog sensors provide a signal that is continuous in both its magnitude and its temporal (time) or spatial…

Basic Features of a DC Potentiometer

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A potentiometer is an instrument that is used for measurement of potential difference across a known resistance or between two…

Variable Capacitance Sensors

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Several mechanical input sensors, as well as some sensors which measure humidity or temperature, operate by the transduced quantity causing…

DC Motor Power Op-amp Speed Controller

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Let’s consider the functional diagram below: Figure 1 DC motor power op-amp speed controller functional diagram The D/A converter outputs…

Power MOSFET Motor Control

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Because of the very high input gate resistance of MOSFETs, MOSFET’s fast switching speeds, and the ease at which they…

Metal Oxide Semiconductor FET (MOSFET)

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The Metal oxide semiconductor FET (MOSFET) also known as the insulated-gate FET (IGFET) is similar to JFET but exhibits even…

The Junction Field Effect Transistors (JFET)

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The bipolar transistor has several disadvantages: it has low input impedance because of forward biased emitter junction, it has small…

Bipolar Junction Transistors (BJT)

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By placing two PN junctions together we can create a bipolar junction transistor. In a PNP transistor the majority charger…