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Geiger Counter Uses Cockroft Walton Multiplier Project

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This is a project of Geiger Counter Uses Cockroft-Walton Multiplier circuit diagram. The recent tsunami in Japan and the on-going calamity with the Fukushima nuclear power plant has apparently greatly increased sales of radiation meters, not only in Japan but elsewhere around the world. This device will allow an estimation of the level of radioactivity, being sensitive enough for background radiation monitoring or to provide an estimation of the level of radioactivity from sample objects such as Thorium gas mantles in LPG lamps. The circuit is compatible with several Geiger Muller tubes and three types of indication are provided: the good old-fashioned audible click with each discharge, a flashing LED or an analog meter providing a rough average of radiation levels. Geiger Counter Uses Cockroft-Walton Multiplier Circuit Diagram A normal background count in New Zealand with the smaller GM LND712 tube is around 30 counts per minute, while the larger and more-sensitive LND7312 pancake tub...

Versatile Micropower Battery Protector Project

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Protect your expensive batteries from discharge damage with this mini-sized electronic cutout switch. It uses virtually no power and can be built to suit a wide range of battery voltages. Main Features Disconnects load at preset battery voltage Automatically reconnects load when battery recharged Ultra-low power consumption (<20ma) Miniature size 10A maximum rating Suitable for use with 4.8-12.5V batteries Transient voltage protection (optional) Suitable for use in... Cars, boats & caravans Security systems Emergency lighting Small solar installations Camera battery packs Many other low-power applications Picture of the project: Back in May 2002, we (Silicon Chip) presented the "Battery Guardian", a project designed specifically for protecting 12V car batteries from over-discharge. This unit has proven to be very popular and is still available from kit suppliers. This new design does not supersede the Battery Guardian – at least not when it comes to 12V car batteries....

4A High Speed Low Side Gate Driver Project

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This is the simple project of 4A High-Speed Low-Side Gate Driver circuit Diagram. The UCC27518 and UCC27519 single-channel, high-speed, low-side gate driver device is capable of effectively driving MOSFET and IGBT power switches. Using a design that inherently minimizes shoot-through current, UCC27518 and UCC27519 are capable of sourcing and sinking high, peak-current pulses into capacitive loads offering rail-to-rail drive capability and extremely small propagation delay typically 17 ns. The UCC27518 and UCC27519 provide 4-A source, 4-A sink (symmetrical drive) peak-drive current capability at VDD = 12 V. The UCC27518 and UCC27519 are designed to operate over a wide VDD range of 4.5 V to 18 V and wide temperature range of -40°C to 140°C. Internal Under Voltage Lockout (UVLO) circuitry on VDD pin holds output low outside VDD operating range. Features Low-Cost, Gate-Driver Device Offering Superior Replacement of NPN and PNP Discrete Solutions Pin-to-Pin Compatible With TI’s TPS2828 ...

Simple Line Activated Solid State Switch Project Circuit Diagram

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Let me ask this simply, then explain my use case below. This is a Easy Line Activated Solid State Switch Project . Each and every time a phone on the same line or calling numberis taken off-hook, the circuit will be activated to control an external electronic circuit. If several extension telephones are used on one phone line, the circuit can be useful as a busy indicator. LEDl contains a special flashing red LED that makes an excellent indicator for a busy circuit condition.   Line Activated Solid State Switch Project Circuit Diagram The solid-state switch can be used for several other phone-activated applications, such as automatically turning on a cassette recorder, starting a phone-use timer or counter, etc. A small relay can be connected at points A and B, in place of LEDl, to control external circuits. A 117-Vac-to-6-Vdc plug-in power supply can be substituted for the battery to keep the operating cost at a minimum.  The 48-Vdc, on-hook, phone-line voltage keeps Ql...

LED Flasher With One Transistor Circuit Project

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This is a unique flasher circuit employing a single driver transistor that takes its flash-rate from a flashing LED. The flasher within the photo is 3mm. An ordinary LED won't work. The flash rate can not be altered by the brightness of the high-bright white LED will be adjusted by altering the 1k resistor across the 100u electrolytic to 4k7 or 10k. The 1k resistor discharges the 100u in order that when the transistor activates, the charging current into the 100u illuminates the white LED. If a 10k discharge resistor is used, the 100u isn't absolutely discharged and therefore the LED doesn't flash as bright. All the components within the photo are within the same places as within the circuit diagram to make it simple to envision how the components are connected. The circuit uses a flashing LED to flash a super-bright 20,000mcd white LED

Simple Electronic Project Battery Replacement Power Supply

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Here is a simple Electronic Project for battery replacement power supply to build easy.  Your child's battery toy has failed and you have to fix it. Once you have managed to get it apart, the battery compartment is not likely to be connected to the works or the batteries might have gone flat anyway. The solution is this switchable supply which is designed to replace from one to six dry cells. It is not intended to replace the batteries on a permanent basis, as in most cases this is not practical. Battery Replacement Power Supply Circuit Diagram: The heart of the supply is an LM317T adjustable 3-terminal regulator and six trimpots selected by switch S1b. The other pole of the switch, S1a, is used to select taps on the transformer secondary, to minimize power dissipation in the LM317T. The table shows the trimpot settings for the six voltage outputs. Diode D1 and the 10µF capacitor and the LED provide power indication. This has the advantage of constant brightness which would not be...

Electronic Project of Fire Alarm with LDR Sensor

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This is a Electronic Alarm Circuit Project of Fire Alarm with LDR Sensor.  The fire alarm circuit which use LDR to sense the smoke from the fire, so it can be used to detect any dark smoke. With the onset of summer season, possibilities of fire accidents go up. These fire accidents could be prevented if timely alarms are available. The circuit given right here alerts the user against these fire accidents. The circuit needs to be put in fire-prone locations for example a kitchen. Fire Alarm with LDR Sensor Circuit Diagram: Every person is aware that when everything catches fire, smoke is produced. When this smoke passes between a bulb and an LDR, the amount of light falling on the LDR reduces. This causes the resistance of LDR to raise and the voltage at pin 2 of IC 555 comes below 1/3 Vcc. thus triggering IC 555 that is utilized right here in bistable mode. As a result the voltage of pin 3 goes high. This high voltage (about 9V) completes the supply to the COB (chip-on-board). Var...

Project of Bathroom Fan Controller Circuit Diagram

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Many bathrooms are fitted with a fan to vent  excess humidity while someone is showering. This fan can be connected to the light  switch, but then it runs even if you only want  to brush your teeth. A better solution is to  equip the fan with a humidity sensor. A disadvantage of this approach is that by the time  the humidity sensor switches on the fan, the  room is already too humid. Consequently, we decided to build a circuit  that operates by sensing the temperature of  the hot water line to the shower. The fan runs  as soon as the water line becomes hot. It continues to run for a few minutes after the line  cools down, so that you have considerably  fewer problems with humidity in the bathroom without having the fan run for no reason. Naturally, this is only possible if you can  fit a temperature sensor somewhere on the  hot water line and the line does not become  warm if hot water is used somewhere else. We use...

Low Cost Electronic Project of RF Synthesizer Uses Generic ICs

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Low-Cost Electronic Project of RF Synthesizer Uses Generic ICs . You can design a hardware-based frequency synthesizer with one inexepensive IC and a few passive components. Such synthesizer chips are not always available, however, because they are typically single-sourced and are not in stock with parts distributors. The need for a working circuit in a short time and using common parts prompted the creation of the circuit in this Design Idea. The synthesizer covers the US commercial AM (amplitude-modulation) broadcast band. It tunes in 10-kHz steps from 500 to 1800 kHz, but you can scale the frequencies for other applications. The PLL (phase-locked loop) time base is a 100-kHz, tuning-fork-cut crystal of the same size as those in wrist watches. Using a more common crystal requires some extra parts to scale the frequency. Note that if you attempt to use one of these tiny crystals with a CMOS gate oscillator circuit, however, the circuit will either fail to start or exhibit visible jit...

USB Printer Share Switch Circuit Project

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This simple device allows two computers to share a single USB printer or some other USB device, such as an external flash drive, memory card reader or scanner. A rotary switch selects the PC that you wish to use with the USB device, while two LEDs indicate the selected PC. The most common way to share a USB printer between two PCs is to use one machine as a print server. However, that’s not always convenient because it means that the server PC must always be on if you want to print something. Picture of the project: That can be a real nuisance if you just want to quickly fire up the other machine and print something out. It also means that the two PCs must be networked together, either via a hub/router or directly via an ethernet crossover cable. Another way is to use a dedicated USB print server. However, as before, this must be connected to an ethernet network, along with the PCs. Such devices also need their own power supply, generally cost well over $100 and are overkill if you jus...

Remote Controlled Home Appliances project using ATmega8

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Hi everyone! First of all I would like to thank Avinash Gupta for writing all the valuable tutorials and libraries for AVR Microcontrollers and helping people like me to build projects and learn new things. I am dedicating this post to him!   Introduction: Using remote keys from 1 to 4, you can control 4 appliances. You can easily extend this number to as many you wish. For example, if you press key_1 on your remote, fan will turn ON. If you press the same key again, fan will turn OFF i.e each time you press a key configured for an appliance, the condition will toggle. I have programmed the MCU such that all devices will turn OFF on pressing power button(RED COLOR on top of your remote). You can also choose combinations like turning all fans OFF at a time, etc. With little tweaking, you can change the program yourself! The status of the appliances is shown in an LCD. You can ignore this feature if you dont want LCD. I used LCD for developing the code. I main advantage in this project ...

1 2 30V 1 5A Variable Regulated Power supply Project

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This is a project of 1.2-30V/1.5A Variable Regulated Power supply, This is simple 1.2-30V/1.5A variable regulated power supply circuit diagram The 110V-AC coming from the powercord is fed to the transformer TR1 via the on-off switch and the 500mA fuse. The 30vac output (approximately) from the transformer is presented to the BR1, the bridge-rectifier, and here rectified from AC (Alternating Current) to DC (Direct Current). If you don't want to spend the money for a Bridge Rectifier, you can easily use four general purpose 1N4004 diodes. The pulsating DC output is filtered via the 2200µF capacitor (to make it more manageable for the regulator) and fed to 'IN'-put of the adjustable LM317 regulator (IC1). The output of this regulator is your adjustable voltage of 1.2 to 30volts varied via the 'Adj' pin and the 5K potmeter P1. The large value of C1 makes for a good, low ripple output voltage.  1.2-30V/1.5A Variable Regulated Power supply Circuit Diagram Why exactly 1.2V...