ElectronicProducts.com is pleased to welcome guest author Adrian Nastase. Mr. Nastase is a Principal Electrical Engineer with Newport Corporation and also the voice behind the popular and very-well ...

A “loose neutral” in a residential location can cause equipment damage and even a house fire. An open neutral may start as a high-resistance connection that shows subtle signs in waveform capture data ...

The circuit in Figure 1 measures both the true-rms value and the rectified average value of an ac signal. This design uses two low-cost ICs in SOIC packages and consumes only 180 µA of quiescent ...

We all know that electric utilities in the United States generate electricity at various 60-Hz voltage levels that result in a sine wave waveform. The height, or amplitude, of this sine wave is called ...

How many times have you poked around a circuit with a digital multimeter (DMM), read an AC voltage value, then gone on your merry way? Ever wonder if your meter is giving you peak value, average value ...