Electrical Components

An electronic component is a basic electronic element usually packaged in a discrete form with two or more connecting leads or metallic pads. more...

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Components are intended to be connected together, usually by soldering to a printed circuit board, to create an electronic circuit with a particular function (for example an amplifier, radio receiver, or oscillator). Components may be packaged singly (resistor, capacitor, transistor, diode etc.) or in more or less complex groups as integrated circuits (operational amplifier, resistor array, logic gate etc.)

Very often electronic components are mechanically stabilized, improved in insulation properties and protected from environmental influence by being enclosed in synthetic resin

Components may be Passive or Active:

Passive components are those that do not have gain or directionality. In the Electric industry they are called Electrical elements or electrical components; Active components are those that have gain or directionality, in contrast to passive components, which have neither. They include Semiconductors (Solid State Devices) and Thermionic Valves (Vacuum Tubes);

List of electronic components

Many electronic components are on the market today. Here is a list of some of them.

Wires and cables

Devices to conduct electrical current

Wires; Cables; Coaxial cables; Ribbon cable;

Terminals and connectors

Devices to make electrical connection

Terminal; Connector

Socket; Screw terminal, Terminal Blocks; Header;

Cords

Cables with connectors or terminals at their ends

Power cord; Data Cable; Patch cord; Test lead;

Switches

Components that may be made to either conduct (closed) or not (open)

Switch - manually operated switch; Keypad - small array of pushbutton switches; Relay - Electrically operated switch. This is a mechanical component, unlike the Solid State Relay; Reed switch - Magnetically activated switch; Thermostat - Thermally activated switch; Circuit Breaker - Over-current activated switch; Limit Switch - Mechanically activated switch; Mercury switch; Centrifugal switch;

Resistors

Components that dissipate electrical energy as heat.

See the Transducer section below for resistors used to sense environmental conditions (Thermistor, Photoresistor, RTD...); See the Protection section below for resistors used for current or voltage limiting (MOV, Inrush Limiters...);

Resistor - fixed value; Resistor network - array of resistors in one package; Trimmer - Small variable resistor; Potentiometer, Rheostat - Variable resistor; Heater - heating element; Resistance wire - wire of high-resistance material, similar to heating element; Thermistor - Temperature-varied resistor;

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