Branch circuits are undoubtedly the most commonly installed circuits in both residential and non-residential applications. And, since they supply the equipment that utilizes the electricity, they are ...

Electrical hazards can strike without warning—whether from damaged wiring, overloaded circuits, wet environments, or improper ...

Let's pretend for a moment that you don't check the temperature of your home's electrical receptacles and cover plates once a month. You might know you should because hot outlets are a warning sign of ...

The wall outlet that serves your home office desk is dead. There goes your productive morning. Now what? As annoying as the above scenario is, diagnosing and repairing a non-functioning outlet is ...

I have received numerous questions over the last few years about things that I think fall into a communications issue between modules, usually caused by a low voltage situation or after component ...

Connecting them at only one point. Cutting the ground plane under a mixed signal component Connecting them with capacitors. Segmenting the ground plane in a PCB such that there is only a narrow ...

Modern operational amplifiers (op amps) and instrumentation amplifiers (in amps) provide great benefits to the designer, when compared with discrete semiconductors. But all too often, some very basic ...