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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.
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AC:
("Alternating Current". An electric current that
reverses direction in a circuit at regular intervals.
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ADC:
("Analogue to Digital Converter"). A device that
convert analogue signals into digital signals
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AIS:
Alarm indication system.
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AM:
Amplitude Modulation. A modulation method in which the
carrier amplitude changes with the input signal
amplitude.
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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.
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Analogue:
A system in which an electrical value (usually voltage
or current, but sometimes frequency, phase, etc.)
represents something in the physical world.
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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.
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Anode:
A positively
charged electrode, as of an electrolytic cell, storage
battery, or electron tube.
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API:
Application Program Interface. A software layer that
allows a system to be programmed via a defined set of
commands.
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ASCII:
American Standard Code for Information Interchange,
established in 1960 |
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