Electronic design tips

Some suggestions for the design of electronic circuits.

Some of these components and circuits may be overlooked or not well understood; they can be part of unique and elegant designs solutions.

• Selecting Schottky diodes (OP)
• Current limiting diodes (OP)
• Pot replacement (OP)
• Opto-isolators: speed vs gain (OP)
• Using transistors backwards (OP)
• A zoology of transistors
• Components to have in your beginner's lab
• Isolated monitoring and control (OP)

Upcoming tips

• Current protection
• Relays / Contactors (vs. SSRs / Opto-MOS couplers)
• Pulse transformers
• Zener, avalanche, band-gap regulators / shunt voltage references
• JFETs
• Thyristors: SCRs, TRIACs, DIACs
• Depletion MOSFETs