Voltage Detector Circuits
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The circuit will come handy when you have to follow the mains wires buried in the wall or even water pipes provided they are not too far away (2-4cm max). It will also detect a conversation on a telephone cable without actually touching it (for testing.... -
It operates by PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) - well, actually by PFM - Pulse Frequency Modulation. At power up, C1 charges up via D1 and R1. R2 will conduct, pulling the base of the emitter follower, Tr2, up and feeding gate voltage to the MOSFET. Tr4..... -
This circuit will automatically switch on several mains-powered "slave" loads when a "master" load is turned on. For example, it will switch on the amplifier and CD player in a stereo system when the receiver is turned on. It works by sensing the current.... -
This circuit will detect AC line currents of about 250 mA or more without making any electrical connections to the line. Current is detected by passing one of the AC lines through an inductive pickup (L1) made with a 1 inch diameter U-bolt wound with 800.... -
The circuit in this figure is protecting the circuit and the system with power supplies that may exceed safe limits. One example is small consumer products that use external ac adapters; its easy to mistakenly plug in the wrong adapter. Another example is a.... -
The circuit uses a dual operational amplifier IC, the 1458, which is a single IC package that houses two individual op-amps. In this circuit, the first op-amp is used as a voltage follower whose output is used to charge the capacitor C1 through D1. As such,.... -
Nothing really new: a JFET is used to sense the electric field generated by high voltage electric line; the JFET amplifies the signal very little, but it lowers the impedence and provide current to a level suitable for transistor amplification. The two.... -
High voltage current sensing/monitoring can be designed using LTC6101 op-amp. The following current sensing circuit is capable of measuring electrical current... -
An AD8205 can be used to make a high-side current sense with a low side switch. Besides AD8205, an inductive load (solenoid) and a resistive shunt are added in this circuit. The resistive shunt is placed on high-side and the switch is placed on low-side, so.... -
A project with two distance sensors that signal an Arduino to operate a servo motor when an object comes into range. This currently works well, except that the sensors are outputting a relatively high voltage all the time, so I have to set a very high cutoff.... -
The design came from the interest of finding a new technique of analog to digital conversion. The two types of ADC (Analog to Digital Converter) that inspired me in the development of this circuit are Flash Type ADC and Successive Approximation Type ADC. The.... -
The AD537 is a monolithic V-F converter consisting of an input Amplifier a precision Oscillator system, an accurate internal reference generator and a high current output stage. Only a single external RC network is required to set up any full-scale (F. S. ).... -
BU8732AKV is a PCM codec IC for digital cellular phones. This includes plenty of Analog input / output functions such as a 14bit precision linear. / A-LAW codec, a Microphone Amplifier with two systems, Amplifiers for speaker and earphone and a Switch.... -
The ICM7226 is a fully integrated Universal Counter and LED Display driver. It combines a high frequency Oscillator a decade timebase Counter an 8-decade data Counter and Latches a 7-segment decoder, digit multiplexer and segment and digit drivers which CAN.... -
The PTB78560x is a series of 30 W rated isolated DC/DC converters, designed to operate from a standard 24 V or 48 V telecom central office (CO) supply. Housed in a 12 package, each model has a wide-adjust output voltage that CAN be set to one of the common.... -
The SC9256 is phase-locked loop (PLL) LSIs for digital tuning systems (DTS) with built in 2 modulus prescalers. All functions ate controlled through 3 serial bus lines. These LSIs are used to configure high-performance digital tuning system. By Silan .. -
STMicroelectronics introduces the STV0288 its TM latest DVB and DIRECTV QPSK digital receiver, which adds blind scan capability and DiSEqC 2. 0 to the industry-leading STV0299 and provides a cost reduction path or new products. By STMicroelectronics .. -
The TRF1115 is the first of two ASICs used in the receiver section of Texas Instruments MMDS/MDS/WCS/802. 16x chipset. The TRF1115 down-converts the input frequency to an IF frequency in the range of 420 MHz to 480 MHz. The device provides a differential.... -
The XC61H series is a highly accurate, low power consumption CMOS voltage detector with a delay circuit. Detect voltage is accurate with minimal temperature drift. Output configurations are available in both CMOS and N-channel open drain. Since the full.... -
The HT70XX series is a set of three-terminal low power Voltage Detectors implemented in CMOS technology. Each Voltage Detector in the series detects a particular fixed voltage ranging from 2. 2V to 7V. The Voltage Detectors consist of a high-precision and.... -
The detector is intended to sense and signal to another circuit that an appliance is connected to the mains voltage. For this purpose, an optocoupler, IC1.... -
Tools that features equivalent of a professional, easy to use, cheaper, and more importantly, safe for use. For checking to find AC 220 Volt or 120V or call.... -
To check the peak voltage of the signal to change at any time. Measuring with a multimeter will not do it. We recommend this circuit. It may help you. In this circuit is used with a positive signal input, when has negative feedback only. And the inverting.... -
This be simple check pressure level circuit, with integrated number circuit TL431. When use power supply 5Volt in digital circuit. The general feeding signal.... -
This circuit uses a 1458 dual op-amp to form a radar detector. C1 is the detector of the radar signal. The first op-amp forms a current-to-voltage converter and the second op-amp buffers the output to drive the piezo transducer. R5 sets the switching.... -
Here`s a simple lie detector that can be built in a few minutes, but can be incredibly useful when you want to know if someone is really telling you the truth. It is not as sophisticated as the ones the professionals use, but it works. It works by measuring....
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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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