Free Electronic Circuit Design
Using high (treble) and low (bass) frequency beat detection to control stage lamps can produce automatic light jockey for disco or any music performance. Instead of using general level of music signal to control a disco lamp, the circuit presented here uses two separate channel to give more complex variation of light flashing pattern. The dynamics of music signal is […]
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A fluorescent lamp, also called a fluorescent tube is a tube with electrodes filled with low pressure mercury-vapor, utilizing fluorescence to generate visible light. The excitation caused by electric current in the gas of mercury vapor generate short-wave ultraviolet light. There is phosphor coating inside the tube an the ultraviolet light then make this coating glows. Conversion of electrical energy into […]
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Using some active and passive components, we can build a simple audio-controlled disco light controller circuit. A standard audio power amplifier output, which usually drive loudspeaker, can used to drive this disco light circuit. With this circuit we don’t need light jockey anymore, because the flashing of the light will be directly controlled by the music signal itself. The schematic […]
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With only few components, we can use resistors, diodes, and capacitor, we can convert line voltage (220VAC) directly to low DC voltage (10 VDC). This low voltage powers the low voltage flip-flop standard circuit, but this circuit is then used to drive high voltage SCR. This simple high voltage flip-flop circuit can be used to control alarm lamps, bell, or […]
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A LED driver provides power regulation so the working voltage and current applied to a LED is kept stable while maintaining high efficiency in various supply voltage condition. Using a Schmidt-trigger NAND gate, we can design a LED driver with switching technology. Switching technology is developed to minimize power loss power control. The idea of this technique is by fully […]
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Step-Up Converter 12 to 19V for Laptop This DC-to-DC converter circuit enables automotive lead-acid battery to power your laptops/notebooks, converting 12VDC to 19VDC with good efficiency since it uses switching technology. I designed this circuit to make power backup for small home office to provide eight hours backup for three notebooks. The input voltage range is 9V to 15V, which […]
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Temperature Controlled Soldering Station With temperature control, we can take some benefits in soldering: lower cost for electric power, safer operation of soldering critical components from excessive heat, and longer life for the soldering tip. We can save the electricity power consumption up to 50% of the uncontrolled one. A high quality soldering tip, which can be expensive enough, often […]
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The microphone pre-amplifier circuit described here make the microphone sensitive to a sound come from very close source, and insensitive to any sound coming from far sources. This works even when the far sound is very loud. The main application of this circuit is in telecommunication system like in mobile phones, where the microphone should pick a clear speech even […]
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Introduction to Automatic Disco Light Control Simple audio or music controlled disco light uses comparator to sense the beat of a music signal, but this comparator has a reference point that should be calibrated according to the music signal volume. It’s easy if we have a light jockey to take the duty of controlling all the lighting, but it’s not […]
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Electronic Fuse Fuse or circuit breaker is useful to protect electronic circuit, especially the power supply. A short circuit or overload might damage the power supply if the connection between the power supply and the load is not immediately disconnected. When we use conventional fuse, we must replace the blown fuse with the new one after fixing the failure which […]
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Boost Converter and Its Unprotected Nature Boost converter topology, where an inductor is alternately shorted to ground by a switching transistor in some portion of the cycle and connected in series with the load in other portion of the cycle, is inherently unprotected from load failures such as short circuit and overload (look at the figure 1 of the reference […]
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Introduction to Current Sensing Current sensing is sometimes needed in a circuit to measure the amount of electric current flow. In signal communication for example, current sensing circuit is needed to read the measurement of remote sensor via current loop. Other common application is in the power supply circuit, when we need to limit the maximum current drawn by the […]
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