DS

All miniature electronic devices operate off batteries. Some of them need higher than the standard battery voltages to operate efficiently. If the battery of that specific voltage is unavailable, we are forced to connect additional cells in series to step up the DC voltage. Thus, the true meaning of miniaturisation is lost. A simple way to overcome this problem is to employ a voltage doubler, if the device under consideration can operate at a small current. Here we present a low-power voltage doubler circuit that can be readily used with devices that demand higher voltage than that of a standard battery but low operating current to work with. The circuit is quite simple as it uses only a few components. Yet, the output efficiency is 75 to 85 percent along its operating voltage range. The available battery voltage is almost doubled at the output of the circuit. Here IC1 is wired as an astable multivibrator to generate rectangular pulses at around 10 kHz. This frequency and duty cycle of...

This circuit is a cheap way is a simple DC voltage doubler, which requires a few components and will generate a voltage 10Vdc from a 5Vdc power supply that can be output from the PC USB. The oscillator should be constructed from a non-functional door IC 74HC132 then requires more than two components are R1 and C3. The most important parameters of the voltage doubler circuit are given in the table schema. Note   That due to the tolerances of the data IC may have a few differences. DC Voltage Doubler using the 74HC132 Circuit Diagram