It’s easy to assume that as long as something is conveniently located, fits neatly on a shelf or in a drawer, and isn’t getting dripped on by a leaky pipe, it’s being stored correctly. Unfortunately, ...

Crowbar circuits have long been the go-to safeguard against overvoltage conditions, prized for their simplicity and ...

An SCR topology transmogrifies into BJT two-wire precision current source with a self-resetting fault-current limiter.

Over on YouTube [Lockdown Electronics] reviews an old bit of kit known as the Silicon Controlled Rectifier (SCR). Invented in the 1950s the SCR is a type of thyristor and they were popular back in ...

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