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High power drain is eliminated by a circuit consisting of a divide-by-two stage, two identical inputs, a wiggle amplifier, driver, and power output stages to drive the step motor.
Low power drain hybrid tunnel diode pulse generator for delay circuits, gated oscillators, frequency limiters and leading and trailing edge discriminators
Transistorized, portable, high performance amplifier with low power drain facilitates biomedical studies on mobile subjects. This device, which utilizes a differential input to obtain a common-mode rejection, is used for amplifying electrocardiogram and electromyogram signals.
Wide range pulse height discriminator with milliwatt power drain for use in nuclear experiments on scientific satellites
Hybrid tunnel diode-transistor circuit provides a solid-state, low power drain pulse regenerator, frequency limiter, or gated oscillator. When the feedback voltage exceeds the input voltage, the circuit functions as a pulse normalizer or a frequency limiter. If the circuit is direct coupled, it functions as a gated oscillator.
Scientific satellites nuclear experiments fast low power drain logic system, using AND and NAND gates, pulse generators, delays and bistables
New logic circuits have response times no longer than 10 nanoseconds and drain only milliwatts of power. The family includes AND and NAND gates and forms the basis of all logic functions. The basic circuits are used in various types of digital-data-processing systems.
Two-transistor multivibrator has minimum power dissipation and maximum reliability. It minimizes the use of components that are subject to environmental changes or other unpredictable behavior.
A regulated dc-to-dc converter requires negligible standby power for the operation of critical electronic equipment. The main operating circuitry consumes power intermittently according to load conditions, rather than constantly.
The calculation dependences for designing a self-draining solar power plant (SDSPP) with an active element in the form of a narrowing device of the Venturi tube are obtained. The calculation dependences for the transient modes in an SDSPP are analyzed from the point of view of the representations of the nonlinear nonequilibrium thermodynamics. It is shown that two steady operation modes of an SDSPP are possible: with and without a break of the jet. It is specified that both these modes merge when the consumption of the heat transfer fluid is equal to the critical value, for which the contraction ratio of the flow in the Venturi tube is defined, and differ when their values are higher than the critical value.
An improved fast low-power-drain logic system has been developed for use in nuclear experiments on scientific satellites. The basic unit of the system is an AND-NAND gate which has a response in the 10-nsec range, a power drain of 2.0 mw and operates over the temperature range of -40 to +80 C. In addition to providing the AND-NAND logic functions, one or more of the basic units may be connected to yield a monostable pulse generator, a pulse generator proceeding an output pulse at the leading edge of the input pulse, a delay, a threshold detector, and a bistable circuit. The system requires relatively simple circuitry for interfacing at its outputs and inputs.
High voltage solar arrays are necessary for direct-drive solar electric propulsion, which has many advantages, including simplicity and high efficiency. Even when direct-drive is not used, the use of high voltage solar arrays leads to power transmission and conversion efficiencies in electric propulsion Power Management and Distribution. Nevertheless, high voltage solar arrays may lead to temporary power disruptions, through the so-called primary electrostatic discharges, and may permanently damage arrays, through the so-called permanent sustained discharges between array strings. Design guidance is needed to prevent these solar array discharges, and to prevent high power drains through coupling between the electric propulsion devices and the high voltage solar arrays. While most electric propulsion systems may operate outside of Low Earth Orbit, the plasmas produced by their thrusters may interact with the high voltage solar arrays in many ways similarly to Low Earth Orbit plasmas. A brief description of previous experiences with high voltage electric propulsion systems will be given in this paper. There are two new official NASA documents available free through the NASA Standards website to help in designing and testing high voltage solar arrays for electric propulsion. They are NASA-STD-4005, the Low Earth Orbit Spacecraft Charging Design Standard, and NASA-HDBK-4006, the Low Earth Orbit Spacecraft Charging Design Handbook. Taken together, they can both educate the high voltage array designer in the engineering and science of spacecraft charging in the presence of dense plasmas and provide techniques for designing and testing high voltage solar arrays to prevent electrical discharges and power drains.
High voltage power systems in space will interact with the space plasma in a variety of ways. One of these, snapover, is characterized by sudden enlargement of the current collection area across normally insulating surfaces generating enhanced electron current collection. Power drain on solar array power systems results from this enhanced current collection. Optical observations of the snapover phenomena in the laboratory indicates a functional relation between glow area and bia potential as a consequence of the fold/cusp bifurcation in chaos theory. Successful characterizations of snapover as a chaotic phenomena may provide a means of snapover prevention and control through chaotic synchronization.
High voltage power systems in space will interact with the space plasma in a variety of ways. One of these, Snapover, is characterized by a sudden enlargement of the electron current collection area across normally insulating surfaces. A power drain on solar array power systems will results from this enhanced current collection. Optical observations of the snapover phenomena in the laboratory indicates a functional relation between bia potential and surface glow area. This paper shall explore the potential benefits of modeling the relation between current and bia potential as an aspect of bifurcation analysis in chaos theory. Successful characterizations of snapover as a chaotic phenomena may provide a means of snapover prevention and control through chaotic synchronization.
Performance of circuits are compared to determine the optimum circuit configuration for implementation into microelectronic functions. Comparison is made in terms of power drain, propagation time, and component variations with temperature and load.
Solid state device generates fixed width output pulses from variable width input pulses in the nanosecond range. The circuit produces pulse repetition rates in the megacycle range and exhibits low power drain.
Low power drain discriminator circuit generates an output pulse when an input pulse exceeds a discrete digitally controlled threshold voltage. The discriminator operates over a wide linear or nonlinear range of threshold levels. It uses several amplifier stages ahead of a fixed-reference threshold detector.
Frequency and phase detector circuit enables a hysteresis synchronous motor to drive a load of given torque value at a precise speed determined by a stable reference. This technique permits driving larger torque loads with smaller motors and lower power drain.