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Apart of wirewound resistors resistive elements may be produced and arranged in a lot of different ways by non-wirewound technologies....

Wirewound resistors are type of passive components in which metal wires are used to reduce or restrict the flow of...

How to calculate transformator, which losses and parasitic parameters are there in the transformer and how can they be measured...

Resistor types can be divided into categories by various criteria. The most common splits are by construction types, termination leads,...

Source: Avnet Abacus article With the continuing supply shortage for multi-layer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs), designers are being forced to consider...

In many applications reliability, stability and long lifetime of resistors are of critical importance. Lets learn something about resistors’ noise...

Source: EDN article Article by John Dunn -August 08, 2018 explaining bypass capacitor resonances considerations.  Ideal capacitors only exist in...

Coils wound on toroids have due to the closed magnetic circuit, a high inductance and thus a good attenuation effect....

Source: Powersystems design article Christopher Hare, Coilcraft, Inc. explains class-D audio amplifier output filter design and optimization. Careful component selection...

Ceramic disc PTC components are universally used for overcurrent circuit protection purposes. The principle of their function is relatively simple....