This circuit flashes an LED to indicate that your phone rang during your absence. A differential amplifier with hyste..

When the light incident on the LASCR is interrupted, the voltage at the anode to the 2N4990 unilateral switch goes positive on the next positive cycle of the power which in turn triggers the switch and the C230 SCR when the switching voltage of the....

This circuit will record commentary and/ or music on one track of a tape and put the beeps that change the slides on another track. Gate U2a is used to trigger U1, which is configured as a timer when a pulse is received from either the tape input or via....

Often the frequency of a signal must be doubled: modulator/demodulator chip LM1496 is an ideal basis for this. From..

Simple half-wave motor speed control is effective for use with small universal (ac/dc) motors. Maximum current capability 2 amps RMS. Because speed-dependent feedback is provided, the control gives excellent torque characteristics to the motor, even at low....

The LT1012 corrects de errors in the booster stage, and does not set high-frequency signals. Fast signals are fed directly to the stage via Q5 and the 0.01-uF coupling capacitors. De and low-frequency signals drive the stage via the op-amp"s output. The....

Two simple arrangementsfor resistive loads are shown in A & B. The circuit in A will provide load power when the actuating contact is closed, and no power when the contact is open. B provides the reverse of this action-power being supplied to the load when....

The three-channel amplifier output distribution uses a single TL084. The first step is to capacitive coupling with a p. 1.0 ~ electrolytic capacitor. The entries are railways Vee Y2 or 4.5 V. This allows using a single 9 V power supply A voltage gain of 10....

The heart of the circuit is a 555 oscillator /timer, Ul, configured for monostable operation. The output of Ul at pin 3 is tied to the gate of SCRl. As long as Sl-S5, which are connected to the trigger input of Ul, are open, the circuit remains in the....

Oscilloscope measurements of ground noise can be unreliable because noise can enter your circuit via the scope"s three-pronged power plug. You can avoid this problem by using the ground-noise tester shown. Powered by two 9-V batteries, the circuit....

This closed-loop peak detector circuit uses a Schottky diode inside feedback loop to obtain good accuracy. The 20- resistance RQ isolates the 0.01- load and prevents oscillation. The dc value is read with a DVM. At a low frequency, the error is small and....

Here is a simple method of series connection into the telephone set suitable for PABX or short line applications. When the telephone handset is lifted, Cl is charged via D1 to (Vz1 -0.7) V and DF320 power on reset occurs. When the first keyed digit is....

The level at which the limiter kicks in audio can be adjusted with the selector knob LIMIT LEVEL. When this level is exceeded, the output of the half-LIMITING detector of the op-amp (used as a comparator) turns the LED causes the resistance of the....

LTC1043 and LT1013 dual op amps are used to create a dual instrumentation amplifier using just two packages. A single DPDT section converts the differential input to a ground-referred single-ended signal at the LT1013"s input. With the input switches....

This circuit uses a CA3240 dual BiMOS op amp to sense small currents flowing between the contact points on a touch plat..

The FM modulator is built with a Motorola MC1648P oscillator. Two varactors, Motorola MV-209, are used to frequency modulate the oscillator. The 5000- potentiometer is used to bias the varactors for best linearity. The output frequency of approximately 100....

Simple, portable phase-sequence indicator determines the proper phase rotation in polyphase circuits. Major components are two neon lamps, two resistors, and a capacitor. In operation, the leg voltages are unbalanced, so that the lamp with the maximum....

In this circuit, data at input C is amplified by IC2 and then fed to modulator IC1. IC1 g..

A simple method of deriving a center or third channel without the use of an extra transformer or ampli..

The base of Ql is connected to the car"s ignition circuit. One side of the piezoelectric buzzer is connected to the instrument-panellight fuse. When the headlights are off,. no current reaches the buzzer, and therefore nothing happens. What happens when....

This circuit allows a microprocessor system to measure its own battery voltage. A Texas Instrument TI43..

The compact test probe provides rapid "measurement" of voltage levels at digital gates, fuses, diodes, batteries, and ..

Transistor Ql and its associated components comprise a tuneable rf oscillator. The rf signal is fed to transistor Q2, the modulator. Operational amplifier ICl increases the audio signal and applies it through resistor R4 to the base of Q2. Tune an AM radio....

Display interface uses the ICM7218A/B with an 8048 family microcontroller. The 8-bit data bus (DBO/ DB7-IDO/ID7) transfers control and data information to the 7218 display interface on successive WRITE pulses. The mode input pins on the microcontroller.....

In this circuit, an additional exclusive-OR gate is connected after the modulo-2 feedback, with CI and R2 applying the supply turn-on ramp into the feedback loop. This provides sufficient transient signal so that the PRBS generator can self-start a....

The output frequency of this simple low-cost active voltage-controlled oscillator circuit is based upon the inherent frequency dependent characteristics of our operational amplifier. The oscillator circuit shown uses a TL082 op amp. When power is applied,....

The tracer receiver is a stereo audio amplifier/detector circuit operating near 1 kHz. Inductors Ll and 12-hand-wound coils, consisting of 200 turns of #26 wire on 2-inch ferrite cores-are tunea to the operating frequency of the amplifier/detector. The....

The greatest sensitivity is achieved if R1 is approximately equal to the probe resistance. The circuit can be zeroed with R2, while the full-scale voltage is controlled by R5. The correlation between pH and output voltage might not be linear, which would....

A low power, low cost dc lamp dimmer for a two-wire portable "flashlight" can be realized with little or no heatsinking. In addition, a single potentiometer, R3 adjusts lamp brightness. Battery power is stored in Cl for Ul, which is a free-running....

Most of the circuitry is contained in the LM3914 dot/bar-graph driver IC chip. In addition to the comparator circuitry within the package, it also contains a stable reference supply and the drivers for the LEDs. Resistor R2 acts as the current limiter....

A quad op amp can simultaneously generate four synchronized waveforms. The two comparators (Al and A3) produce square and pulse waves, while the tWo integrators (A2 and A4) give triangular and sawtooth waves. ..

This logic probe uses a CD4009 CMOS hex inverter. The characteristic high-input impedance of CMOS gives the advantage..