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Reliable Car Battery Tester Circuit Diagram

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This circuit uses the popular and easy to find LM3914 IC. This IC is very simple to drive, needs no voltage regulators (it has a built in voltage regulator) and can be powered from almost every source. This circuit is very easy to explain: When the test button is pressed, the Car battery voltage is feed into a high impedance voltage divider. His purpose is to divide 12V to 1,25V (or lower values to lower values). This solution is better than letting the internal voltage regulator set the 12V sample voltage to be feed into the internal voltage divider simply because it cannot regulate 12V when the voltage drops lower (linear regulators only step down). Simply wiring with no adjust, the regulator provides stable 1,25V which is fed into the precision internal resistor cascade to generate sample voltages for the internal comparators. Anyway the default setting let you to measure voltages between 8 and 12V but you can measure even from 0V to 12V setting the offset trimmer to 0 (but i think ...

Sound Activated Lights

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This diy sound activated lights circuit turns a lamp ON for a short duration when the dog barks (or a relatively strong sound) giving an impression that the occupants have been alerted. The condenser microphone fitted in a place to monitor sound and generates AC signals, which pass through DC blocking capacitor C1 to the base of transistor BC549 (T1). Transistor T1 along with transistor T2 amplifies the sound signals and provides current pulses from the collector of T2. When sound is produced in front of the condenser mic, triac1 (BT136) fires, activates lights and the bulb (B1) glows for about two minutes.  Sound Activated Lights Circuit Diagram Assemble the sound activated lights circuit on a general purpose PCB (circuit board) and enclose in a plastic cabinet. Power to the sound activated switch circuit can be derived from a 12V, 500mA step-down transformer with rectifier and smoothing capacitor. Solder the triac ensuring sufficient spacing between the pins to avoid short circui...

Graphic Equalizer for Headphone Stereos

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General Description: The BA3840KV is a preset graphic equalizer IC for headphone stereos. It combines two equalizer circuit channels ona single chip, and also includes a dynamic sound leak reduction circuit. Circuit diagram: Graphic Equalizer for Headphone Stereos Datasheet for BA3840: Download

Class A headphone amplifier

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Class A headphone amplifier Class A headphone amplifier

2 Transistor Line Follower Robot

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Make a line follower robot can be done with two transistors. Line Follower Robot series is one of the two transistors contor robot line follower circuit is in Bagun with two NPN transistor and the motor driver as well as processing of sensor signals. In the circuit of line follower robot consists of two parts of the same, only different functions for the motor driver the right and left. Sensor circuit of line follower robot uses the LDR and LED. LDR sensor sensitivity can be set with the VR 10 is mounted in series with the LDR. For more details, see the following figure. Line Follower Robot series 2 Transistor The working principle of the motor driver circuit between the right and left together, when the LDR get the reflection of light from the LED LDR resistance will decrease and make the transistor saturation and motor gets supply and rotates so that the robot moves forward. So at the moment is not the case then the motor did not get a supply, for example, only one sensor is exposed ...

PIC Based Auto Dimmer

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The operation of the dimmer is based on phase control; during a full cycle of an AC waveform, a thyristor will only allow a part of the waveform to be delivered to the load. Take a look at the following waveforms:   The only difference is that the waveform on the left will bright the lamp higher than the waveform on the right. That is because, on the left waveform, the triac will be conductive earlier than the triac shown in the right waveform.  The time that the triac becomes conductive is symbolized with the Greek letter α (ALPHA) , called firing angle, so controlling this angle you can control the phase voltage, and is measured in angles from the zero point of the waveform. This zero point is the point that the voltage is 0 volts, and this happens 2 times every one full period of the wave form. When the α becomes smaller, then the dimmer becomes conductive sooner and the lamp is brighter. When the α becomes bigger, then the triac delays more to become conductive and thus th...

Basic RF Oscillator Circuit Diagram

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This basic circuit is simple to create and the tool's are not critical . Most of them can be found in your junk parts box . The L1 antenna coil can be made by close winding 8 to 10 turns of 22 gauge insulated hookup wire around a 1/4 inch form such as a pencil . You can exeprement with the size of the copile and the number of  turns to see how it affects the frequency and singnal out put of the oscilatter . You ought be able to pick up its signal with a standard FM radio receiver . The signal in ought be coupled by a disc capacitor of about 0.1 uF to stage in main of it . Author            Saifullah soomro