Cool, duty cycles then
This is just the width of charge at a given time or the width of a trigger pulse
As a
basic concept, yes. But there's more to it for a complete understanding.
Motor controllers , dimmers, radars and the like often use pulse width (PW) to control speed, brightness and radar signal strength. And the signal is, generally, a square-wave.
Recall the 555 Timer circuit where we looked at an RC network controlling the timing (duration) of the pulse (where the timed-switch controlled frequency)?
The "duty cycle" is considered the "Time-On" and "Time-Off" components combined, PLUS the repetition rate (frequency, or period), PLUS how much of the MAX pulse amplitude the pulse rises to.
This site gives a good
Duty Cycle Description plus the associated math. Although it refers to radar duty cycle, it is applicable in most of the cases I can think of.
If the math gives you a problem, don't worry for the time being: it's the
concepts that you need to nail down first.
It also mentions dB and it might help you there since dB is a gain ("power" output and input considerations) concept as well.
I'll look back at #180 to see what I said, since I don't remember at the moment.
KISS. I mentioned LateX being broken some time ago to ericgibbs in a PM, who responded that he sent something to EM (?) about it. It worked for a bit, but then broke again.