Questions tagged [tolerance]

A window of acceptance, often expressed as a percentage, in which a non-perfect value is still accepted as usable.

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Component has a x% tolerance: What does this mean exactly?

All components have specification tolerances and ranges. Some examples are:- Resistor 1% Electrolytic capacitor 20% Zener diode breakdown voltage 5% Clearly it kinda indicates that the specification may vary by x% from that stated. So a 5%, 24V…
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Constant current circuitry tolerance dependency

I have the below given circuitry. The circuit provides ( 12 - 3.3 = 8.7 V) 8.7 V / R3 of current. My specific question: What is the effect of PNP transistor on the variation of current? Until now I have following cases: more current case: R1…
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