555 Timer Circuits
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Function of the Two Siren Sound Circuit that is using IC 555. Siren Circuit is separated into three parts: low frequency production. The manufacturing shrill frequency and annex of production low frequency is obtained from IC1 connected to astable multi.... -
The employment of the circuit IC1 which build survive astable multi vibrator circuit. self-control gesticulate frequency low origin comes exposed the way pin 3 take approximately 1 Hz by frequency charge with the intention of s were fixed by the value, R1,.... -
This circuit sent out an alarm when its LDR sensor is exposed to light by sun or lamp. A 555 astable multivibrator was used here which sent signal a tone of about 1kHz upon detecting light. The sensor when exposed by light completes the circuit and makes the.... -
Based on NE555 this circuit turns on and off the IC output by a momentary switch. In other words it works as a mechanical latching relay, but the circuit backs to the start condition when you switch off the power supply. This feature is often required in.... -
555 Timers are very fun to encounter and experiment with. They can be used as a timer and can be set to a certain frequency. In Part II of Electronic Project I, we created a circuit that would get an LED to flash. This time we are going to add a speaker so.... -
I am a mechanical engineering student, and for a part of my design project I wish to use a timer as so the motor switches off about 40-50 seconds after activation. The 555 timer chip is a rectangle with a indented o on the top, i assumed this was equivalent.... -
To provide rapid motor speed changes and motor direction reversal, four outputs drive a MOSFET H-bridge. N-channel devices are the lower rail power MOSFETs and P-channels are the upper MOSFETs. All of them are driven by the TC4469. A small series resistor.... -
Many integrated circuits have undocumented features or abilities. This is one of them. The TLC555 output (pin 3) can sink a 100mA load to 1. 28V. The open drain transistor reset (pin 7) can sink 100mA to 1V. Tying both lines together is permissible because.... -
These novel relay driver circuits have the ability to pick up a relay with a coil voltage rating equal to double Vcc. After pickup, the relay armature is held via the application of Vcc. Under this condition, the coil power is reduced by the square of the.... -
The second circuit simulates the siren of an American police car. It uses two 555 timers in the circuit. The 555 on the right is wired as an alarm tone generator and the second 555 timer on the left is wired as a low frequency astable timer which generates a.... -
A voltage-controlled oscillator using NE555 The circuit is usually known as a voltage-to-frequency converter as a result of the output frequency will be modified by changing the input voltage. As mentioned in previous blog posts, pin 5 terminal is voltage.... -
Anyone who has designed circuits using the 555 timer chip will, at some time have wished that it could be programmed for longer timing periods. Timing periods greater than a few minutes are difficult to achieve because component leakage currents in large.... -
For a lower parts count than the 2 transistor multivibrators, 2 LEDs can be alternately flashed with a 555 integrated circuit configured as shown in Schematic 2. I chose the combination of a 2K2 and a 47K resistor to determine the oscillation frequency along.... -
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A simple oscillator circuit that varies the duty cycle over a wide range without affecting the frequency. It is a variation of the simple 555 astable oscillator. Initially, I told a reader that there was no standard 555 circuit that could do this, but then.... -
This LED Flasher circuit is based on the 555 timer IC. The LED Flasher circuit diagram is very simple and require few external components. When the circuit is working the red LEDs will flash at a set frequency one by one like at the railway crossing indicator... -
Using this 555 timer DC motor control electronic project you can control speed of a 6 volts DC motor, by simply rotate left or right the 50 k potentiometer... -
The water sensor circuit is based on a 555 timer circuit and come common electronic components. The water sensor is made by two metal electrodes arranged very close that a drop of water (liquid) will bridge them. If the liquid ( water ) is very pure you may.... -
Using TEA5551T monolithic integrated radio circuit can be designed a AM radio receiver circuit which is designed for use as a portable radio receiver with headphones. The TEA5551T radio receiver circuit contains all is needed for a AM radio receiver circuit.... -
This metal detector electronic project schematic circuit is designed using a simple 555 timer integrated circuit. As you can see in the schematic circuit, this metal detector electronic project requires few external electronic parts... -
The 555 frequency can be varied via adjusting the voltage at pin 5. However, the range and linearity of frequency adjustment is very limited. This is a way to greatly improve performance using the inverted 555 timer circuit that was previously posted. Q2 is.... -
Infrared transmitter and receiver circuit shown in the schematic diagram below can be used as remote control. The transmitter is basically an oscillator circuit, and the frequency can be adjusted using R1 potentiometer (or trimmer pot). This oscillation.... -
The heart of this circuit is IC No. 555. When the alert sound was working, even though the switch will continue to be the same, the sound still does not stop immediately. But it will stops automatically, when a set time period, Depending on the resistance of.... -
Micro or analog? These days it is getting harder to choose. The 555 timer was the benchmark of flexibility. How does it fare today?... -
This voltage-booster circuit for driving one or more white LEDs uses a 555 timer as its main element ( see the figure ). The timer, IC1, functions as a resettable astable multivibrator where R1, R2, and C2 are the timing components. When the supply voltage,.... -
The circuit shown flashes the LED briefly (to get your attention) and stays on as long as the power is on ( Fig. 1 ). The venerable 555 timer IC can be put to use in this type of application. The circuit is a standard astable multivibrator with resistors RA,....
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Here is a `beeper` circuit employing two 555 ICs. It can be used in various circuits (having supply voltage of 5 to-15V DC) that require an alarm or a `beeping` signal. IC1 is connected in astable mode in the circuit in such a way that squarewave output at.... -
You can start to set your Square Wave Generator up using 555 timer IC through the circuit shown above. Find it match with the pinout of 555 timer IC. The osciloscope is then connected to the output of 555 timer IC in order to view the square wave. From the.... -
This document describes a basic circuit that can be used to power high impedance, high voltage, low current devices such as EL backlights and fluorescent tubes. This project got its genesis when I needed a simple, yet flexible inverter circuit for an EL.... -
Here is a circuit for simulating breathing / pulsing LED with the 555 timer chip. It became very popular and i received many comments and emails with people that made this circuit and worked fine, as well as comments with people that had troubles converting....
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This project fits more for custom made battery casing that can have more space to hide things inside. This switch with few alterations can be used for any other project as well but is designed based on e-bike needs! This project use a clever functionality of.... -
The circuit described here uses ultrasonic oscillations and operates based on the propagation velocity of these oscillations in the air. Thus, we can easily determine the distance of two points if the time within which the wave travels this distance is.... -
Sometimes the precious metals are hidden too deep and are not detected except with complicated devices. In many cases, however, small pieces of precious metal buried near the surface can be detected by relatively simple means. Everyone is very attractive to.... -
Many times for various reasons we forget or can not water the plants that we have in our homes. And many humidity sensors units just notify us with a beeping sound or with a flashing light, that the pot needs watering. But what if we are away from home? This.... -
The principle behind a metal detector is really very simple. Proof of this is the circuit that follows, in which it proves that the construction of a metal detector can be done in the minute, with few components that we find very easily everywhere. With the.... -
The sub-harmonic bass generator is a sound producing unit for guitars. The sound it produces looks very much like that of the bass guitar. The octave generator is sometimes quite unusual since it does not produce any of the usual ways of coloring the sound,.... -
In the past the sounding (sea bottom measurement) was done with the "bullet", that is, with a heavy lead object that the seamen plucked into the sea hung from a calibrated rope. As soon as the "bullet" reached the bottom, the depth appeared directly from the.... -
This Amplifier was designed to have the following specifications: Distortion less than 0.1% at full power of 100W even at 20KHz. Power has to be attributed to an extended bandwidth. The output transistors must be protected against short circuits. The power.... -
A series of LEDs serve to alert the gardener when plants need water. Using two conventional digital integrated LEDs and a series of LEDs, we make a very useful device for gardening. The device detects the amount of water in the pot and alerts the grower.....
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