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The most commonly used type of all the sensors are those types of sensors which detect Temperature or heat. These types of…

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Electrical field strength sensors are used to measure the strength of electrical fields. Electric fields are the product of voltage…

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Earlier sections in this guide have been essentially concerned with describing ways of producing high-quality, error-free data at the output of a…

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RS-232 interface With the term “serial port” we will usually mean the hardware RS-232 and its signal levels, connections etc.…

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Serial communication is common method of transmitting data between a computer and a peripheral device such as a programmable instrument…

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Suppose we wanted to build a device that could add two binary bits together. Such a device is known as…

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In all developed countries, long-distance communication links (which used to be called ‘trunks’, by analogy to ‘trunk road’) nearly always…

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You saw the importance of microwave transmission for newsgathering in the Higgins extract. The term ‘microwave’ identifies a particular range…

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Transmission of electrical signals on wires In the discussions of newsgathering in the Taylor and Higgins papers, you saw the…

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The measurement of very large or very small quantities is always difficult, and resistance measurement is no exception. Values above 1GΩ and values…

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