How to Drive a Relay with a MOSFET

It is very common application to drive a relay with a MOSFET. From household applications to automotive are using this circuit. There are some aspects to consider like the stress on the MOSFET, the level of driving voltage to guarantee MOSFET saturation, the level of the actual voltage applied to the relay coil if enough to meet the requirement and

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Power MOSFET Design Equations

here are only few power MOSFET design equations to take note when doing design involving this electronic part. You may try deriving these equations if you want a better understanding on how these formulated. These are also given in application notes and some technical blogs but maybe in different form but will result to the same calculation results.

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Purpose of Power Factor Correction

The purpose of power factor correction is to condition the line current. To condition simply means making the line current smooth by filtering the spikes and any irregularities in the waveform. A smoother line current will have low power loss. Some images below are showing a line current with a very bad power factor. The yellow and pink waveforms are

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How Electric Meter Works

How electric meter works? Electric meter records the consumer energy consumption. Energy is the product of power and time. You may be already heard about the term “kilowatt-hour”. This is the unit of energy measured by the electric meters. The power considered is the real or true power that is consumed by the users. There are two common types of

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