Video Circuits
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This circuit is used for remote photographic flash units that flash at the~ame time as the flash attached to the camera. This circuit is designed to the trigger cord or hot shoe connection of a commercial portable flash unit and triggers the unit from 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.... -
Using the CA3164A BiMOS control chip consumes less than 15 pA during standby, yet it can provide 100 mA of chopped current to the de-to-de converter during the energy-reservoir charging cycle. The CA3164A drives tbe primary of T1 with symmetrically chopped.... -
Transistors Ql and Q2 and their associated components provide: a low-impedance output with the necessary power to drive the output stages, give increased gain tohigh frequencies, and peaking the video for enhanced transient response. Emitter followers Q3,.... -
Q1 and Q2 form a differential stage which single- ends into the LT1010. The capacitively terminated feedback divider gives the circuit a de gain of 1, while allowing ac gains up to 10. Using a 20-fl bias resistor, the circuit delivers 1 V pk-pk into a.... -
This circuit is a traditional summing amplifier configuration with the addition of the de clamping circuit. The operation is quite simple; each component-synchronization, color burst, picture information, etc.of the composite video signal is applied to its.... -
This amplifier employs a cascaded op amp integrator and transistor buffer, Q1, to drive the gain control element. Except for a simple modification, the HA-5190/5195 stage is connected as a conventional noninverting op amp, and includes input and output.... -
This configuration utilizes the wide bandwidth aod speed of HA-2540. plus the output capability of HA5033. Stabilization circuitry is avoided by operating HA-2540 at a closed loop gain of 10, while maintaining an overall block gain of unity. A maximum.... -
This buffer amplifier"s overall harmonic dis tortion is a low 0.01 % or less at 3-V rms output into a 500-fl load with no overall feedback. The LT1010CT offers a 100 V/p.s slew rate, a 20 MHz video bandwidth, and 100 mA of output. A pair of JFETs, ]1.... -
The incoming RGB inputs are terminated with resistors Rl, R2, and R3 and potentiometers RVl, RV2, and RV3. These provide input impedances of approximately 75 0. The presets should be adjusted to provide a maximum input of 1 V pk-pk into the MC1377. The.... -
This circuit extracts the sync pulses from a video signal over a wide range of amplitudes and operates a single +15 V supply. IC1 buffers and amplifies the incoming signal and applies it via C3 to the peak detector, consisting of D2 and C4. It is also.... -
This circuit shows a simple way to add text information to a composite-video signal that might be floating at some indeterminate de level. The text generator and composite-video source must have the same sync signal. The video-input and -output signals.... -
This high-performance video-camera link transmits signals from your video camera to your VCR, or from your VCR to TVs throughout your home. The first stage of the rf chain is a crystal-controlled oscillator, Q1, with a frequency of 60 to 65 MHz, which is.... -
The circuit will accept a video signal, separate the sync pulses, invert the video, and add new video to the old sync pulses. The video signal is brought in through Jl and applied to a clamping circuit consisting of Cl, Dl, D2,D3, Rl, and R2. The clamp.... -
The main requirement for efficient de restoration is to provide a short time-constant during the clamp period, with a long time-constantlluring the active line time. The switch within the Harris HI201HS has an on resistance of 30 0 and the PM! buffer,.... -
This circuit provides a simple, low-cost crosshatch generator tor convergence and geometry adJUStments on color TVs. The generator is driven by two clocks, one for the horizontal drive, IC1ab, and one for the vertical drive, IC2ab. The clock outputs are.... -
The circuit uses a track-and-hold amplifier in a closed-loop configuration to clamp the back-porch voltage of a standard video waveform to 0 V. The circuit"s outputs include a clamped composite-video signal and a TTL-level horizontal-blanking pulse..... -
Tum on a game, computer, videodisc player, or whatever, and its output takes priority over the antenna-derived signal-the antenna is disconnected and the alternate source is fed to the monitor. When the alternate video source is no longer detected, the.... -
This figure shows a one-of-two switch with a sunnning amplifier. The video source"s line can be terminated either externally or internally to switch RO. With this termination resistor, a load change of less than 1 0 will be seen by the source when the.... -
The HA2541 is well-suited for use as the heart of an oscillator. In spite of the rudimentary diode limiting that is .. -
S2 is used to initiate timing. A light-to-dark or dark-to-light transition stops this timer, depending on the setting of .. -
Ql is a phototransistor that is normally illuminated by a beam of light. When the beam is intercoupled, pin .. -
This circuit was used to trip a camera shutter. Grounding pin 2 of U1 makes pin 4 of U1 go high. This triggers both tim.. -
A 4001 CMOS Quad NORgate is set up as an astable multivibrator, which drives a simple differentiator and relay.. -
By using a low-cost RS-170 camera and this circuit, a voltage that trades the position of an object in .. -
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This circuit uses a sync-generator chip, a counter, and a decoder to detect the horizontal sync pulse that occurs a.. -
IC5 generates RS-170 NTSC synch. IC1, IC2, and IC3 make up the red, green, and blue video signals that drive the video .. -
The A/B Switch circuit consists of three ICs and a handful of resistors. Two gates from a 4011 quad 2-input N.. -
In the video system of Figs. A and R, a single coaxial cable carries power to the remote location, selects one of eight video channels, and returns the selected signal. The system can choose one of several remote surveillance-camera signals, for example,.... -
Meter Ml, a +/-50-uA zero-center D`Arsonval meter movement is driven by Ul, a TL081 FET op amp, through R3. The gain of Ul is set at 11 by Rl and R2, while capacitor 01 is used to restrict the bandwidth of Ul to 1.6 Hz. Power for the circuit is derived from.... -
Sound or light sensors corniected to J2 produce a voltage that is amplified by ICl-a and ICl-b. A positive trigger voltage that is developed by D1 and 1)3 and amplified by ICl-d, drives 1C2 and 1C1 to trigger SCR1. SCR1 is connected to a strobe. .. -
The electronic darkroom timer is built around a 555 oscillator/timer, a pair of general-purpose transistors, a buzzer, and an LED. The 555 (Ul) is configured as an astable multivibrator (free-running oscillator). The frequency of the oscillator is....
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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..... -
The best human ear can capture sounds from 20Hz to 20KHz. These limits are known to be the broadest that can exist. Normally the normal limits range from 100Hz to about 13KHz and depend on the age and health of the individual. We for our measurements and to....
