These magical creatures crop up out of nowhere and fry your electronics or annoy your ear holes. Understanding them will doubtless save you money and hassle. The ground loop in a nutshell is what ...

Having problems with your process controls and electrical instrumentation? The source may be a grounding disturbance known as a ground loop. According to the ANSI/ IEEE Standard Dictionary of ...

Let’s say that for a project you are working on, you need an op amp (of course, I would like it to be one of one of Touchstone’s op amps), and you want to make sure that the amplifier meets your ...

You've just connected your system and there's a buzz or hum that won't go away. You're running your gear through power conditioners and you're beating your head against the wall trying to figure out ...

For the PDF version of this article, click here. Most offline and telecom power supplies need a method to isolate the relatively high input voltage from lower voltage outputs to provide safety, ...

Successful shield grounding cannot be divorced from the issue of good signal grounding; they go hand-in-hand. Thus both subjects will be treated as a combined topic in Part 2 of this series.