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What is a PLL oscillator? PLL stands for phase locked loop, and this means a control method by comparation of the controlled plant or system to a reference....
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Dimmer Switch Introduction Dimmer switch can be used to replace your electrical switch for lamps, heaters, or some types of electric motor. Dimmer switches....
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This sawtooth wave generator gives not only the sweep signal at out 1, but also a synchronization output at out 2 when the sawtooth fly back and begin sweeping. The frequency formula of this sawtooth wave signal is: Remember that the real frequency might be....
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Quartz crystal tester is needed if you want to know whether the crystal is good or bad (broken). This crystal tester gives LED light indicator. If the....
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This alarm siren circuit give continuous frequency sweep, a warbling sound. The warbling period is about 6 seconds, 3 seconds for frequency sweeping up and 3....
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Switching Regulator for High Power Efficiency When you should regulate a high voltage to a much lower voltage, switching regulator must be the only choice....
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LED flasher circuit can be built based on 555 IC. Using 555 IC, the flashing rate can be more flexible to adjust. This LED flasher circuit is similar to our....
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This simple LED flasher circuit will turn ON and OFF two LED alternatively. The first LED will turn ON when the second LED is OFF for some period, then the....
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Pulse position modulation is similar to pulse width modulation, but the frequency is not constant. Like pulse width modulator circuit, pulse position....
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A very simple pulse modulator circuit can be built using 555 IC. In 555 chip, a special modulator input is available at pin 5. Here is the schematic diagram of....
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What is A pH Meter? A pH meter is actually a precise voltmeter that measures the generated voltage of a pH electrodes. The requirement of such meter is high....
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This AM/FM antenna booster circuit amplify the broadband signal from antenna. This antenna booster should work fro FM, AM, and SW receivers. Here is the....
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To make LED works, you need a voltage source that is higher than the LED`s forward bias voltage, and it`s higher that 1.5V (around 2V for red LEDs)....
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The FM transmitter circuit here works in the broadcast band 88 to 108MHz, and can be used to broadcast audio signals for remote listening. The output power....
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This audio power amplifier is very good for your portable devices, or for your headphones amplifier. The circuit of this audio power amplifier is very simple,....
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Stepper motor is a simple way to make a motion control with high precision. A stepper motor control circuit is needed to make stepper motor works. A stepper....
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Function generator ranging from 0.1 Hz to 20 MHz can be easily built using MAX038 integrated circuit chip. Here is the most simple implementation of high....
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To generate 50% active factor (duty cycle) using 555 IC, we can use two diodes to separate the charging and the discharging path. With no diodes, we can also....
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A schematic diagram of a fast pulse detector is show in the figure below. Error detection rate under 10% can be expected for 60 ns pulse. To get error free....
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Colpitts oscillator can be implemented using op-amp as long as we have an op-amp with proper bandwidth. Here is an example of such circuit: LT1190 or LT1191....
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PLL (Phase Locked Loop) can be used to make a FM demodulator. PLL circuit track the input frequency by controlling a voltage input of a VCO (Voltage-Controlled....
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Fading a video signal can`t be done simply by attenuating the composite signal, since the synchronization signal may drop below unacceptable level. Here a....
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This is a simple high voltage inverter circuit. It is uses NPN transistor type 2N3055. This circuit used to invert low voltage to high voltage. Besides that,....
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This is a power supply circuit that produce voltage 12 to 24 V. It is very simple, doesn`t need regulator just bridge rectifier, filter capacitor and transformer. A bridge rectifier makes use of four diodes in a bridge arrangement to achieve full-wave....
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To extend the measurement range of an available ADC(analog to digital conveter) we can use this autoranging. If it implemented on multiplexed input, this....
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In some industries, to control the some equipments they are use computer-controlled 4-20mA current loop. This current loop is used transmit a signal over a....
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A frequency-selective frequency multiplier can be construct with a PLL system by inserting frequency divider inside the feedback between the phase detector....
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Introduction Humidity is the amount of water vapor in the air, expressed as a percentage of the maximum amount that the air could hold at the given temperature....
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Only with a single chip active component (4069 IC), this circuit will convert sine to square waves without a power-source. To test some audio instruments, we....
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To generate a system clock or auxiliary sleep clock in microcontrollers (µCs) and low-power instruments we usually use A 32kHz oscillator. A CMOS inverter....
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To make a constant speed motor control we can use Closed loop (servo) control. Constant speed motor is a motor that has constant speed although the load is....
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We can use a voltage-controlled current source to implement a laser diode driver. Compared with a a Switched (PWM) drivers, this simple linear laser diode....
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To get a position control that are low cost, accurate and simple we can use stepper motor. To drive it we can use a circuit mounted close to the motor, and to....
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Live-line detector is a circuit that detects the presence of a live mains conductor circuit operation: capacitive coupling between the live conductor and the....
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Logic probe is circuit that indicates the logic state of the node of any TTL logic circuit. It will work if we must supply the probe with the same power of....
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One AC-DC converter that provides a good accuracy is SMPS AC-DC converter. Test data shows efficiency of 85. 4% at 230 Vac input and 6A output current and 83. 2% at 115 Vac input and 6A output current. This converter has the universal input voltage range.....
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One example of the phase shift oscillator is Bubba oscillator. This oscillator gets 45 degree phase shift for each section from quad op-amp package. The....
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We can create Crystal Colpitts oscillator using a parallel mode crystal and a transistor. The circuit shown by the following figure As an inductance, this....
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This circuit is a double tone Police sound and Single tone old ambulance sound. This circuit is usually installed on a on battery powered cars, motorcycles,....
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Hydrophone is a tool like microphone, but this tool is used in the underwater environment. When used to pick up a sound on the air then this tool becomes less....
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Waveform A is timing diagram that shows A split-phase data signal. It consist of a series of binary digits that occur at a periodic rate. Duration of each bit....
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Inverting mode amplifier is needed by precision accelerometers because that usually charge output device. This amplifier is used to convert charge into voltage....
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This is a circuit which is a modification of Hartley oscillator with the addition of several components. This circuit uses a small audio transformer, type....
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This is a light dimmer circuit. It has no fancy special feature, it is a a quite typical TRIAC based dimmer circuit. This circuit is only used to operate with....
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Switch mode circuits can implement the lead acid battery charger with a more efficient. It can be constructed using bq24105 battery charger controller. The....
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Installing the camera in office, home, or the shop becomes economically feasible because the price of security camera going down. It is not efficient if we....
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This is a circuit that produces constant current constant voltage SMPS. To efficiently charge a battery, we can use constant current constant voltage SMPS....
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The FSK demodulator is the electronics device that converts the FSK signal to serial digital signal. To transmit digital serial data we use FSK modulation and....
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This circuit is used to connect the camera with very log wire. This is actually a video amplifiers. This circuit consist of two part, they are sender part and....
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This is a metronome circuit that has mechanical sound character. The metronome that has mechanical sound character will make our life more fun and it would be....
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LTC6101 op-amp can be used to build High voltage current monitoring/sensing. This circuit can senses current in 500 volts system. Here is the schematic diagram....
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To charge lead-acid batteries we can use this circuit that consist of a current-limited power supply and a flyback converter topology. Here is the schematic....
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This is a little audio amplifier, it is similar to the audio amplifier which is used in small transistor radio. This circuit draws about 30 milliamps from a 9 volt supply. This circuit consist of two stage. First stage is input stage (2N3053 transistor) and....
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Quadrature oscillator is another type of phase shift oscillator. This circuit produce two sine wave signal. One of them is shifted 90 degree from the other....
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This is a current sensing circuit that senses the current at the high side (between load and positive supply). This circuit take advantage from....
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This is example of a simple inverter that can be used to power fluorescent lamp and a small strobe. This circuit will produce over 400VDC from a 12 VDC, 2.5 A....
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This is a simple temperature measurement probe circuit. This circuit measures temperature either on a PC board or at the probe tip to which contains the....
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This is a low-current temperature sensors with a single-wire output. The number of pins that needed to interface with a microprocessor is minimized by this....
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This is JFET AC Coupled Integrator circuit. This circuit is used to achieve very high voltage gain. To achieve very high voltage gain this circuit uses....
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This is a circuit of FETVM-FET Volmeter. The function of the VTVM is replaced by the FTEVM while at the same time ridding the usual line cord instrument. This....
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This is a simple JFET pierce crystal oscillator. We can use a wide frequency range of crystal using this circuit without circuit modification. Here is the....
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This is a status panel driver circuit. This circuit is used to turn on lamps or LEDs in a graphic panel that represent faults, action, and status of an....
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The safety shutdown and fault isolation protocol are critical in many telecommunication, industrial, data processing system and industrial. To share data....
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This is a circuit that can generate 1kHz to 25kHz sine waves with a THD better than -80dB. This circuit consist of a 4th-order low-pass filter, a TTL counter....
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This is a simple circuit of magnetic pickup phono preamplifier. A proper loading to a reluctance is provided by this circuit. Here is the circuit: The gain....
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This is single op-amp tone control circuit. This circuit is a hybrid low-pass, high pass and one-pole circuits with attenuation and gain. This circuit is the....
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This is true subwoofer circuit. This circuit is used for 15- to 18-inch woofers and will not work with 8- or 6- inch subwoofers. It has bass-reflex, a....
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This is class D audio amplifier circuit that is used to control PWM motor speed. This circuit has two advantages for battery-powered portable devices. First,....
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This is ultrasonic proximity detector circuit. This circuit consist of micropower opamp and a pair of matched piezo-ceramic tranducers. It uses a 9V battery as....
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This is a simple high gain JFET audio amplifier circuit. This circuit need very low power but it provides high gain amplifying function. It also called `JFET....
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This is a driver circuit for nixie tube. This circuit uses 2N3684 as nixie tube drivers because its Vp is 2-5 volts which is ideally matches TTL-DTL logic....
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This is a programmable current and voltage regulator circuit. It consist of a voltage regulator with external current limitation. The variable resistor R2 is....
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This is a third order low pass filter that has corner frequency of 20kHz. It is twice as high as the auto-zero clock frequency. Here is the circuit : The input....
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This is a wide input-voltage range high-power LED driver circuit. This circuit based on a buck/boost converter controller regulates current to a white LED....
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Getting the right amplifier loop gain is the major problem in producing a low distortion constant amplitude sine wave. However, we can solve this problem with....
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This is a discrete high current switch mode LED driver circuit. The basics of this circuit is a buck-converter principle. The efficiency of this circuit is 80....
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Using the following PMOS FET switch regulator output, in series with the regulator`s load as shown in the picture below is the most simple method. Switch....
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This is a high-brightness LED-driver circuit. To provide a constant-voltage output we usually use DC/DC regulators. But constant-current output is the one that....
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This is a simple PWM modulator circuit. Comparing the message signal to a ramp or triangular waveform is the simplest way to produce a PWM signal. When the....
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this is a circuit of Step-Down Charge Pump Regulator for USB Powered Devices. The critical design parameter of this circuit is the circuit area. To solve this....
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The 200 MHz JFET has same features below: 1. Low crossmodulation 2. Large-signal handling ability 3. No neutralization 4. AGC controlled by biasiing the upper....
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This is a simple circuit for automatic switchover between battery and USB port. This circuit uses more general step-up converter architecture. Compared with an....
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THE FM3954 monolithic-dual gives us an ideal low-offset and acts as low-drift buffer function for the LM101A op amp. Track over it`s bias current range thus....
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This low noise audio power supply circuit can reduces noise and ripple voltage by 40dB over the 100Hz to 20kHz audio range. In portable application such as....
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Powering the system is required by many applications while charging the battery simultaneously. Interaction between the system and charger may result in a....
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DC/DC step-up converter is applicable on battery-powered equipment. DC/DC step-up converter can be used to generate supply voltages for internal circuits that....
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This is a schmitt trigger circuit. This circuit produces a simple comparator action. It is `emitter coupled`. This circuit has a distinct hysteresis loop and....
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This is high frequency switch circuit. This circuit uses the 2N4391. When it is off, it will provide a high off-impedance (<0.2pF) and low on-resistance of....
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This is a simple circuit of low power regulator reference. This circuit can produces stable voltage reference. The voltage reference that is produced by this....
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This is higher input or output for L200 voltage regulator circuit. This circuit is designed to solve the problem that occurs when the input or output voltages are higher than the device can produce. This circuit uses the external components. Here is the....
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We can use boost converter such as TPS61160/1 with a 40V rated integrated switch FET to drive up to LEDs in series. We can use it to reduce output ripple,....
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To protect downstream circuits from overvoltage conditions that show up during load-dump events or transients, we can use the MAX6495MAX6499/MAX6397/MAX6398....
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The MAX6499 comprises undervoltage and overvoltage comparators for window detection. WHen the monitored voltage is within selected `window`, GATE is enhances....
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We can use UBA2021 for 600 V lamp controller and half-bridge driver IC for high-power. The UBA2021 is a long-life CFL/TL applications. It`s equipped with....
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The UBA2024 is a half-bridge IC and 550 V lamp controller. This device is equipped with 9 ohm switches that espouses standard CFL applications up to 15 W. The....
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This diagram tells us about how to use L200 device for the speed control of permanent magnet motors. By means of R1 and R2, we can obtain the desired speed,....
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Manufacturers are starting to turn to new high power to provide a photoflash function for these low-light conditions called white-light LEDs. These LEDs output....
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This is a circuit of Wideband RF amplifiers. This circuit use current-feedback components like the THS3202. The THS3202 was chosen because it has fast slew rate and wide bandwidth. The amplifier voltage gain of this circuit is 20 and stage voltage gain of....
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Applying the filtered and rectified AC input to a high-input-voltage linear regulator is the simplest way to produce low current level from an AC source....