However, choosing the right passive components for your power circuit can be challenging, as you need to consider factors such as performance, cost, size, reliability, and availability.

Eventually we’ll move on to learning about active components like transistors, but there’s a fourth passive circuit component that’s almost never encountered.

This light dimmer control has active timing capacitor reset or AC line zero-crossing synchronization. The 13 additional components are garden variety and cost less than $2. Performance at the low end ...

Active components rely on an external power source to control or modify electrical signals. They inject power into a circuit and are capable of electrically controlling and amplifying the flow of ...

This paper describes a passive snubber circuit with energy recovery to the source. This circuit uses only passive components and can work with a full-leg power conversion topology, i.e., using ...