IEEE Consultants Network of Long Island (LICN)

A smorgasbord of analog treats awaits you as our resident Analog Guru, John Dunn, touches upon a variety of topics taken from his popular Living Analog blog published by the EDN Network on EDN.com.

Topics for this lecture include these and more:

• A look at light emission principles
• Thermal resistance and thermal capacitance together
• Evaluating Analog Switches
• Bounceless Switching
• AM Radio Flutter
• The Diode and the Drop Test
• Artwork Pads - Debunking an intuitive concept
• Autotransformers
• Feedback stabilization of kilovolt supplies
• Linear Opto-Couplers and Loop Gain
• Automotive Electronics vs Minnesota Winters
• Homebrew Loop Gain Test Transformer
• Overhead power lines and wildlife
• Hurricane Ian and EV Fires
• Nines Complement Subtraction
• Feedback, The Very, Very Basics
• Conical Inductors
• Analyzing Energy Loss
• Polymer Tantalum Capacitors and Lifetime
• Fibonacci and The Golden Mean
• Resistor Cube - A classic puzzler
• Root Mean Square versus Root Sum Square
• Quelling A Ground Loop
• Slope Detection - The simplest FM signal demodulation

Speaker Bio:
John Dunn has more than fifty years of design experience in services to over a dozen military and industrial corporations in multiple electronic disciplines including the design of analog circuits, power supplies, HF/VHF/UHF equipment, µP development and test program development.
He is the founder of the LinkedIn group Analog Developments. He is a Senior Life member of IEEE and a Ham radio licensee since 1959. He is recipient of the IEEE Long Island Section Alex Gruenwald Award and is a former Chairman of The IEEE Consultants Network of Long Island.
John has more than forty technical items published in the print trade journals. Items appearing in Electronic Design Magazine's Ideas for Design column won their Best of the Issue award on four occasions. He has hundreds of essays published in print, in the LICN blog, in the EDN Living Analog blog and elsewhere.

Agenda:
We will start our meeting at 7:00 pm. For the next 10 minutes or so, we will introduce ourselves, handle any LICN business and do a little networking. We will then start our presentation. After the presentation, feel free to stick around and chat with others to network or to further discuss our lecture topic.

NOTES
There is no cost to attend this meeting, however, if you are a NYS Professional Engineer and would like to receive Professional Development Hours (PDHs) of continuing education credit, then payment of a $15 fee is required. You will also have to properly fill out an Evaluation Form to prove that you attended this lecture. Click here to open the form. Simply fill it out and click on the “Submit” button. PDHs will be granted based upon actual time of lecture including Q&A. You must stay to the end to receive credit.

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