To quote Colton: “Imitation is the sincerest [form] of flattery.” It seems these days that no matter what product you’re buying, if it’s too cheap, then it’s likely to be fake.
The design process can be considered to be a series of choices, making decisions about the approach to be taken and selecting the components needed to complete the design.
Whilst this prediction has been voiced for a number of decades now and even with the digitisation of industry and manufacturing accelerating at an exponential pace, the simple answer is, nothing could be further from the truth…
The holy grail of Industry 4.0 appeals to our human desire for sea change – a magical something that leapfrogs us right over the competition.
There are many circumstances in which a high current or voltage load needs to be controlled by the operation of a low-power circuit.