This instrument measures inductances from 0. 1 microhenry to 3 millihenries divided into four ranges set by a switch. It operates from 12 volts, and is powered by eight AA type cells attached to the unit. I initially referred to Drew Diamond`s unit in....

Here`s a project that could be useful this summer on the beach, to stop anyone touching your things left on your beach towel while you`ve gone swimming; you might equally well use it at the office or workshop when you go back to work. In a very small space,....

Here`s a simple low supply rail detection circuit that costs peanuts and takes just 20 minutes or so to make. Its power consumption is quite low, so it could easily be built into battery-powered devices. Instead of using an op amp, the circuit is built....

This is a general purpose remote control project with using programmable PIC microcontrollers. Schematics are shown for using infrared (RF) or radio (RF) media. If you are not familiar with microcontroller programming, you can use fixed encoder and decoder....

Amplifier circuit is also very suitable when used in fm radio receiver. Supply voltage required 8 - 25 Volt DC with a maximum output power 0. 15W. See Schematic below...

This circuit can be used where a high current is required with a low-ripple voltage (such as in a high-powered class AB amplifier when high-quality reproduction is necessary). Q1, Q1 and R2 can be regarded as a power Darlington transistor. ZD1 and R1 provide....

Our computer may often heated up due to long use or the hot climate, temperature controllers are necessary. You need to do a temperature measurement to ensure that the computer is work within the allowed range. To reduce pc temperature, here is circuit....

Sometimes it is desired to power a circuit from a battery where the required supply voltage lies within the discharge curve of the battery. If the battery....

2N3819 is an n-channel JFET especially manufactured for RF and mixer applications and provides very low noise, very low distortion and excellent high frequency gain. Make a PCB in very easy steps. ! Create your PCB design using PCB designer software like....

P1 act as condenser microphone volume level. For FM, coil will be small. Use thin gauge enamel magnet wire. the diameter of coil will be a couple mm: use ink tube from pen to form, and try 8-12 turns. Small inductance coils make for much guess work. Tags: 1.....

The circuit below illustrates powering a LED (or two) from the 120 volt AC line using a capacitor to drop the voltage and a small resistor to limit the inrush current. Since the capacitor must pass current in both directions, a small diode is connected in....

For basic requirements we can use Square Wave Inverters which is very simple, low cost and easy to make. But for driving inductive loads pure sine wave inverters are preferred. Here we are dealing with a Simple Low Power Square Wave Inverter using CD4047. It....

The two circuits below illustrate generating low frequency sinewaves by shifting the phase of the signal through an RC network so that oscillation occurs where the total phase shift is 360 degrees. The transistor circuit on the right produces a reasonable....

The goal of this project was to make an interactive baseball game inspired by pinball. There is a solenoid-powered bat and a pitching mechanism that utilizes a motor and lever arm setup. Both of these are controlled by buttons so that two people can play....

1000W Power Inverter circuit diagram: This is the power inverter circuit based MOSFET RFP50N06. The inverter capable to handle loads up to 1000W, it`s depended on your power inverter transformer. The RFP50N06 Fets are rated at 50 Amps and 60 Volts. Heatsink....

Great idea to remove the core of the HV-transformer, that increases the frequency and the step up rate still seems to be good enough. Do you hear any singing or screeching when your circuit is on I also saw that the spiral type CFLs are specially good for....

It is a hansom battery portable radio with a roll top and even today it looks beautiful. When I was first given the radio it didn`t work. It had a burned out detector tube and I had no idea where I`d get a replacement for it. Most importantly, the radio....

The R-C twin-tee passive circuit supplies band-reject (notch) filtering to portable applications. It has a circuit Q (loaded) of 0. 25. Satisfactory rejection can be achieved when the bridge is balanced (close tolerances of adjustable components) and the....

Each grid is biased to cutoff, so mixer accepts only positive-polarity pulses having sufficient amplitude to overcome this bias. -NBS, "Handbook Preferred Circuits Navy Aeronautical Electronic Equipment, " Vol. 1, Electron Tube Circuits, 1963, p N4-2. ..

This is the scheme diagram of 500W power inverter circuit which build using 10 pieces of well-known NPN power transistor 2N3055 to amplify the AC signal produced by multivibrator. The frequency generator / multivibrator is built based on transistors too. All....

Feature of an offered frequency meter that he besides the main function allows to define inductance of various coils, resonant frequency of contours, capacity of condensers. The combined device which schematic diagram is shown on fig. 1 becomes the good....

Most of the IR remotes work reliably within a range of 5 metres. The circuit complexity increases if you design the IR transmitter for reliable operation over a longer range, say, 10 metres. To double the range from 5 metres to 10 metres, you need to....

The infra-red (IR) toggle switch project described here is aimed to provide control mechanism for electrical appliances that do not have remote operation features. The goal is to construct a black box where you can plug-in your 120V AC appliance and control....

A switch-mode power supply provides ±15V or ±12V @ 0.5A output from a 4.5V to 12V input Wide input voltage range allows flexibility to be powered from a regulated DC voltage....

This circuit is designed to check the condition of lead-acid and gel cell batteries with capacities greater than 20Ah. It switches a load of about 18A at a rate close to 50Hz so that the internal resistance of the battery can be measured using a digital....

Initially I chose another infrared sensor for test, PIR Motion Sensor, which was to detect any motion in front of the sensor but it turened out not so sensitive. So that I looked at this QRD1114 IR Sensor for substitute. In this test, I used both as digital....

The STI7167 uses state-of-the-art process technology to provide a fully featured HD AVC DVB-C and DVB-T Demodulator and decoder IC. It is a highly integrated system-on-chip suitable for STB markets across cable, terrestrial, and terrestrial/IP hybrid....

Park Aid Three LEDs signal bumper-barrier distance Infra-red operation, indoor use Circuit diagram: Parts: R1 10K 1/4W Resistor R2,R5,R6,R9 1K 1/4W Resistors R3 33R 1/4W Resistor R4,R11 1M 1/4W Resistors R7 4K7 1/4W Resistor R8 1K5 1/4W Res....

The output of condenser mic is coupled via a coupling capacitor of 0. 1 µF, the purpose of this capacitor is to remove DC contents in the audio signal. Transistor Q1 is configured as collector to base biasing mode. This is accomplished via 470k © resistance.....

Life in the 21st century would be almost unbearable without some of the computer peripherals that PC users now look on as essentials - take for example the USB powered teacup warmer; this device is obviously an invaluable productivity tool for all users but....

The wah will work before the amplifier but sounds very low in volume and it sounds scratchy when the wah is rocked back and forth. The wah is fine without the buffer. In front of a fuzz face, with the fuzz face on, no sound passes Bizarre indeed. I`m going....

The 555 can be almost any type, they are all pin-compatible. Although some CMOS types may not have enough power to drive the transistor, in that case use an ordinary 555. C1`s working voltage should be increased to 25V if you decide to go with a 12V power....