John Dunn

John Dunn

John Dunn

Areas of interest of the author: Supply Measurement Audio Logic Power Light

Publications on RadioLocman by the author John Dunn:

  1. Quelling a ground loop
    As shown in Figure 1, this issue had been previously addressed during pre-internet times in...
    01-02-2024
  2. Linear opto-couplers and the loop gain 'booby trap'
    A power supply that I was examining used an opto-coupler in its feedback path for control of its...
    12-05-2022
  3. Field Coil Speakers: Obsolete or the Future?
    As a youngster, I saw some really old radios; the kind that occupied highly-polished wooden...
    18-08-2021
  4. Ex-OR Versus Ex-NOR: A Lucky Logic Equivalence
    Some years ago, back in 2005 to be specific, the project was a power supply for a low Earth...
    18-08-2021
  5. Why do You Never See Birds on High-Tension Power Lines?
    We very often see flocks of birds perched in trees, on rooftops, on local power line wires, and...
    25-02-2021
  6. Speaker System Handles High Power without Distortion
    There was an interesting article in the January 1961 issue of Popular Electronics, “Sweet...
    19-01-2021
  7. Reduce switching errors in a quasi-resonant power converter
    I worked on a quasi-resonant energy converter, which in an extremely simplified form looked like...
    10-03-2020
  8. LED bulbs can bring heat
    I had a CFL fail the other day at our upstate house but when I went to the local hardware store to...
    06-03-2019