LED Circuits
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The completed board may be driven by voltages between .8 and 3 Volts. While the basic design goal was candle like light from a single cell, the values used were chosen to allow safe operation from 3 Volts so you can, for example, use it to drain the last bit.... -
This may be the simplest LED flasher circuit you can build, with the notable exclusion of LED's with integrated flashing circuits. This might be a good replacement for the LM3909 in some applications. Take a close look. Only the emitter and collector leads.... -
Useful as a transmitter tune-up meter or an RF sniffer, this is an RF field strength indicator that is loosely based on the Broad Band RF Field Strength Probe, described elsewhere. It detects RF via a square law detector, basically its a crystal set with.... -
The circuit allows a precision regulated drive current to be set to drive an LED, and in response to a TTL level signal, the LED is switched on and off with rise and fall times of less than 500 nanoseconds and less than 7% overshoot. This was designed for.... -
This project I made for my little daughter. It is 24 channel light illumination. The schematic is very simple ? 24 LED?s, 1 MCU and some additional components. The main principle is dynamic indication, which is usually implemented for control of 7-segment.... -
An ultralow dropout current source maintains accurate LED current at very low ILED voltages. Automatic mode switching optimizes efficiency by monitoring the voltage across the LED current source and switching modes only when ILED dropout is detected. The.... -
The LTC3201 contains overtemperature protection and can survive an indefinite output short to GND. Low external parts count (one small flying capacitor and three small bypass capacitors) and small MSOP-10 package size make the LTC3201 ideally suited for.... -
This project uses a 3909 IC and a few other parts; power is 1.5 volts DC... -
The LT®3465/LT3465A are step-up DC/DC converters designed to drive up to six LEDs in series from a Li-Ion cell. Series connection of the LEDs provides identical LED currents and eliminates the need for ballast resistors. These devices integrate the Schottky.... -
The circuit shown in Figure 1 is specifically designed to control a single 1W CCFL. T1, Q1, Q2 and associated components form a current fed resonant Royer converter that produces a high voltage at transformer T1s secondary winding. The CCFL current is.... -
A tiny sandwich flag connected perpendicular to the motor spindle aids observation of how long it takes to complete one full rotation. This worked initially, as each burst from the capacitor barely moved the flag 1/4 of a rotation. As the circuit variations.... -
Figure 2 shows another approach that requires additional components but delivers the full magnitude of the voltage ramp to Pin 3 of IC1 and provides the approximately 1V-dc offset that Reference 1 requires. Transistors Q1 and Q2, resistors R1 and R2, and LED....
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Figure 1 presents an alternative to the typical boost power regulator. A buck-converter IC, IC1, generates the higher voltage that the white-light LED needs. An internal buck power stage connects between VIN and PGND, sourcing current to output Pin L. This....
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The circuit in Fig. 1 uses a single bicolor LED to indicate both power-on and blown-fuse conditions. Regardless of the condition of the fuse, the green side of the LED is always on for each positive half-cycle of the ac input. With a 120Vrms ac input....
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The LED flasher circuits below operate on a single 1.5 volt battery. The circuit on the upper right uses the popular LM3909 LED flasher IC and requires only a timing capacitor and LED. The top left circuit, designed by Andre De-Guerin illustrates using a.... -
To model an LED in PSpice, use the diode model. You can set the IFK and ISR parameters in the diode model to zero; Figure 1 shows the resultant PSpice diode forward-current model and corresponding equations. As the equations in the figure show, you can....
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White LEDs are popular for portable equipment LCD backlights because they are less complex, less expensive, and smaller than CCFL backlights. Portable equipment like PDAs, cellphones, and digital cameras require backlights because they are converting to....
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Next is the microcontroller or MCU. In previous projects, we used the Atmel AT89C2051. However, the I/O port structure is not quite suitable for this application so we have used the similar Atmel AT90S2313. The main feature influencing this decision is that....
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Figure 1 shows the classic way to use a backlight-driver IC to provide dimming. By modulating an external PWM signal, the circuit controls the white-LED current. By adjusting the on/off-time ratio, or duty cycle, the circuit can provide drive ranging....
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The circuit mixes LEDs of different forward-bias requirements, yet keeps the loads reasonably well-balanced through use of a current mirror comprising transistors Q1 through Q4. It also eliminates the need for a separate current-limiting "ballast" resistor....
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The circuit in Figure 1 represents one method to switch a bipolar, two-color LED using an SPDT mechanical switch or relay. This circuit wastes power and does not work properly if the power-supply voltage is not substantially more than the sum of the LEDs`....
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The compact circuit (Figure 1) overcomes these problems. The regulated buck/boost charge pump in a small µMAX package (U1) has a 100mA output-current capability. Configured as shown, the circuit directly regulates bias current flowing through the white LED.....
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The rotary switch is available for $5.00USD as of 2003 from DigiKey under part number EG1951-ND or EG1952-ND. It is a real pain to operate this circuit without a proper switch. You can put multiple 4017 ring counters in series to reduce the duty cycle in.... -
Figure 1 shows the LT1618 driving a 1W, white Lumileds (www.lumileds.com) LXHL-BW02 Luxeon LED. You need no external op amps for this compact approach. The LXHL-BW02 has a forward voltage of 3.1 to 3.5V for 250 mA of current. Although the maximum dc....
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The LT®1932 is a fixed frequency step-up DC/DC converter designed to operate as a constant-current source. Because it directly regulates output current, the LT1932 is ideal for driving light emitting diodes (LEDs) whose light intensity is proportional to the.... -
Figure 1 shows the various LED-circuit configurations, and Figure 2 shows the timing to generate all three colors from bicolor and tricolor LEDs, although using only one LED`s operating current. Note that the driver for the bicolor LED must be able to sink....
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The basic circuit illuminates up to ten LEDs in sequence, following the rhythm of music or speech picked-up by a small microphone. The expanded version can drive up to ten strips, formed by up to five LEDs each, at 9V supply. IC1A amplifies about 100 times.... -
Powered from two alkaline cells, the circuit in Figure 2 can illuminate a 1W LXHL-BW02 LumiledsTM white LED with a constant 320mA current at 85% efficiency. The forward voltage of the 1W LED, 3.6V typical, requires a boosted voltage from the 2-cell....
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The circuit in Figure 1 allows you to compensate for both of these temperature-dependent problems, using only the TSF-102 sensor from Texas Instruments (www.ti.com). The device is a temperature-dependent positive-temperature-coefficient resistor with a....
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This application note describes how LEDs (including white LEDs) work. The note also explains how to drive them in battery-powered LED applications, including lithium-ion (Li+ or Li-ion), nickel-cadmium (NiCd), and nickel metal-hydride (NiMH) rechargeable....
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LT3466 is a dual full function step-up DC/DC converter specifically designed to drive up to 20 White LEDs (10 in series per converter) with a constant current. Series connection of the LEDs provides identical LED currents resulting in uniform brightness and.... -
The circuit in Figure 1 is similar in principle to that of a previous Design Idea (Reference 1) but offers improved, more reproducible performance. The output current is almost constant over an input-voltage range of 1.2 to 1.5V and is insensitive to....
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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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