Light Activated Day Night Switch Circuit


Posted on Feb 5, 2014

This is the circuit diagram of a light activated switch based on National Semiconductors comparator IC LM 311 and a LDR. The circuit is based on a voltage comparator circuit wired around IC 1. The non inverting in put of IC1 is given with a reference voltage of 6V using resistors R3 and R4. The input to the inverting input will be the voltage acros


Light Activated Day Night Switch Circuit
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s the LDR that is light dependent. At darkness the resistance of the LDR will be high and so do the voltage across it. At this condition the voltage at the inverting input will be higher than the reference at non inverting pin and the out put of the comparator will be low(~o V). When the LDR is illuminated, its resistance drops and so do the voltage across it. Now the voltage at inverting input will be lower than that at non inverting input and the out put of the comparator goes high (~12 V). This makes transistor Q1 on and it drives the relay. As a result we get a relay switching according to the intensity of the light falling on the LDR. Adjust POT R1 to set the desired light intensity for switching the relay. For this illuminate the LDR with the desire intensity light. The relay will be either on or off. Adjust POT R1 slowly so that the state of the relay changes. That`s it. Now the circuit is set for the given intensity of light.




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