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Ah:

Ampere-hour(s). A measure of battery capacity. A 5Ah battery could, for instance, deliver 1A for 5 hours, 1/2A for 10 hours.

 

AC:

("Alternating Current". An electric current that reverses direction in a circuit at regular intervals.

 

ADC:

("Analogue to Digital Converter"). A device that convert analogue signals into digital signals

 

AIS:

Alarm indication system.

 

AM:

Amplitude Modulation. A modulation method in which the carrier amplitude changes with the input signal amplitude. 

 

Ampere:

Ampere(s). The unit of electrical current. Current is defined as the amount of charge that flows past a give point, per unit of time. 

 

Analogue:

A system in which an electrical value (usually voltage or current, but sometimes frequency, phase, etc.) represents something in the physical world.

 

Analogue Comparator:

A chip or circuit  that produces high and low digital output signals when the sum of two analogue voltages is positive and negative, respectively.

 

Anode:

A positively charged electrode, as of an electrolytic cell, storage battery, or electron tube. See Cathode

API:

Application Program Interface. A software layer that allows a system to be programmed via a defined set of commands.

 

ASCII:

American Standard Code for Information Interchange, established in 1960

 
 

 

 

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