In electronics, a center tap (CT) is a contact made to a point halfway along a winding of a transformer or inductor, or along the element of a resistor...

neutral. The neutral conductor is connected to ground at the transformer center tap. Circuits for lighting and small appliance power outlets use 120 V circuits...

postalveolar tap or flap is ⟨ɾ⟩. The terms tap and flap are often used interchangeably. Peter Ladefoged proposed the distinction that a tap strikes its...

diodes and a center-tapped transformer, or four diodes in a bridge configuration and any AC source (including a transformer without center tap), are needed...

out of the secondary, the three phases, plus a neutral connected as a center-tap on one of the windings. Another method (the open delta configuration)...

motor: bipolar and unipolar. A unipolar stepper motor has one winding with center tap per phase. Each section of windings is switched on for each direction...

(three-wire single-phase) service, the neutral point of the system is at the center-tap on the secondary side of the service transformer. For larger electrical...

winding of a delta-connected transformer feeding the load is center-tapped and that center tap is grounded and connected as a neutral as shown in the second...

This Is Spinal Tap (also known as This Is Spın̈al Tap: A Rockumentary by Martin Di Bergi) is a 1984 American mockumentary comedy film co-written and directed...

configures the system as a full-wave bridge, re-connecting the capacitor center-tap wire to the open AC terminal of a bridge rectifier system. This allows...

A tap changer is a mechanism in transformers that allows for variable turn ratios to be selected in distinct steps. This is done by connecting to a number...

applied to the center tap of the secondary, producing a sum and a difference V c e n t e r ± V s e c o n d a r y 2 {\displaystyle V_{center}\pm {\frac {V_{secondary}}{2}}}...

tapping or telephone tapping, is the monitoring of telephone and Internet-based conversations by a third party, often by covert means. The wire tap received...

is called threading. Many are cutting tools; others are forming tools. A tap is used to cut or form the female portion of the mating pair (e.g. a nut)...

The tap code, sometimes called the knock code, is a way to encode text messages on a letter-by-letter basis in a very simple way. The message is transmitted...

analog-to-digital converter is connected to the center tap of the divider so that it can measure the tap voltage and, by using the measured voltage and...

A tap (also spigot or faucet: see usage variations) is a valve controlling the release of a fluid. Tap is used in the United Kingdom and most of the Commonwealth...

Continuous-time signal, a varying quantity (a signal) whose domain is a continuum Center tap, a wire that is connected halfway along one of the windings of a transformer...

Tap water (also known as running water, piped water or municipal water) is water supplied through a tap, a water dispenser valve. In many countries, tap...

from opposite ends of the centre tapped transformer winding, one will always be positive with respect to the center tap and both halves of the AC Waveform...

The neutral is connected to the center tap of the power company transformer of a split-phase system, or the center of the wye connection of a polyphase...

across two phases of the supply. The second transformer is connected to a center-tap of the first transformer, and is wound for 86.6% of the phase-to-phase...

data transmission. The common-mode voltage is easily extracted using the center tap of the standard Ethernet pulse transformer. For Gigabit Ethernet and faster...

a 12 volt center tap much like the 240/120 volt domestic house distribution system. The 12 volts to ground were derived from the center tap. M1008: Basic...

split-phase system is used to supply to most premises that works by center tapping a 240 volt transformer. This system is able to concurrently provide...

output in this case is taken between the sum of the diode voltages and the center tap. The output across the diodes is connected to a large value capacitor...

point is usually the center point of a wye winding. If the secondary is a delta winding, the ground may be connected to a center tap on one winding (high...

secondary winding is center-tapped, and the center neutral wire is grounded, making the two end conductors "hot" concerning the center tap. These three wires...

(IEEE‑style) Tapped inductor (IEC‑style) Ferrite bead (IEEE‑style) Variable inductor Trimmer variable inductor Transformer Transformer with center tap on secondary...

discriminator is a widely used FM detector. The detector consists of a special center-tapped transformer feeding two diodes in a full wave DC rectifier circuit....