Recent Posts Tagged With 'diodes'

• The Titan - Newest (and biggest) Vacuum Tube Amp from Steve

  Posted on Monday December 21st, 2009 at 06:45 in electronic components, electronics projects, diodes, customer projects, vacuum tube amp, vaccum tube amplifier

  Just in from our friend Steve W. in Canada (who constructs the most amazing vacuum tube amplifiers)… The best way to describe this next amplifier is it’s a Titan. It has to be the biggest, baddest, heaviest and most powerful amplifier I’ve...

• Schottky Diodes - What makes them so special?

  Posted on Wednesday July 29th, 2009 at 00:23 in diodes, electronics history, schottky diodes

  Some of the most common questions we get are about Schottky diodes. The simple definition of a Schottky diode is a diode with a very fast switching action as well as a lower forward voltage drop. As the current flows through a diode, it experiences ...

• Opening Up and Tearing Down an IPOD Shuffle

  Posted on Tuesday June 30th, 2009 at 01:23 in tutorials, guides, electronic components, newsworthy, capacitors, electronics projects, diodes, resistors, customer projects

  Opening up and tearing down an IPOD Shuffle to see what’s inside… The 3rd Generation of the IPOD Shuffle is a wonder of technology….1000 songs stored in an aluminum case smaller than a disposable lighter. Did you ever wonder what e...

• Types of Diodes

  Posted on Saturday February 28th, 2009 at 15:21 in diodes, schottky diodes, zener diodes

  Diodes are an important part of today’s electronic components and are widely used for a number of applications. Accordingly, a large number of different types of diodes have been created to cater to their wide array of uses. The more popular types ...

• Early Crystal Radios

  Posted on Saturday September 27th, 2008 at 17:52 in electronics projects, diodes, crystal radio

  Requiring no battery, the crystal radio was one of the earliest forms of radio having been developed in the late 1800s and early 1900s. At this time the crystal radio sets were used to receive Morse code messages, but as time progressed the voice mes...