Doorbell


Posted on Feb 4, 2014

I designed this project for another boy who had a much bigger box of electronic scrap than me so he supplied most of the bits for it. I made it in few evenings besides doing my homework. We wanted it to play a bit of a tune so we looked through the Maplin Catalogue and on page 1200 there is a silicon chip type M66T which will do just this. The chi


Doorbell
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p is available in several versions, playing different tunes and we settled on the M66T-02B playing twinkle twinkle little star. The cost of the chip was £0. 49 and needs no added output stage to drive a small loudspeaker. There was a typical sample circuit in the catalogue so I built it to this circuit and I found that the volume was high enough but the silicon chip played continuously as long as the supply was maintained. The problem was how was I going to get that to be a doorbell A lazy way of doing it would be to put the bell push in series with the battery supply but since most people press a bell push in the same way that they press the keys on a computer keyboard, this would only give one or two notes of the melody so I decided that a timer circuit was needed which would trigger when the push switch was operated and would hold the circuit on for the few seconds of the tune. I looked through the junk box again where I got the loudspeaker from and found a 1000 µf electrolytic capacitor which would hold its charge for a few seconds and keep the relay RLA1 operated for the time of the tune. The relay needed 9 volts at low current but the loudspeaker circuit needed only 3 volts at a higher current so I decided to have separate batteries to operate the different parts of the circuit. Also if the transistor switches the current to the IC directly it gives an odd effect at the end of the tune as if the musician playing it...




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