Archive for the ‘Electronic Design’ Category:

2024-08-21 Adjustable Power Supply Uses Sziklai Pair

This messy bunch of parts is a 0 to 9V adjustable power supply.  The original power supply board connected the two transistors in the Darlington Configuration.  The unregulated 12V input goes through a 187 ohm resistor to a 10V zener diode to give a stable reference voltage.  This voltage is fed to a 2.5k linear

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2024-08-06 Toroid Inductance Charts

I wound a FT37-43 with 10 turns and measured it at 42 uH, just like it says. https://www.electronics-tutorials.com/basics/toroidcharts_mcq.htm Also visit Ian Purdie VK2TIP’s “Toroids” Page

Delia Derbyshire, Creator Of Dr Who Theme

Unrecognized early creator of electronic music. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1778652559335515?mibextid=9drbnH

2024-06-04 Gallium Nitride MOSFETs To Revolutionize Power Electronics

Gallium nitride power electronics will replace silicon and will make laptop power adapters smaller than a golf ball and will save major amounts of electricity.  GaN devices will waste a lot less power, which will enable power electronics equipment to be made smaller and more efficient.  Quote: “”GaN-based power electronics, on the other hand, could

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2024-05-29 Solar Panel Controller To Charge Lead-Acid Battery

This is a simple charge controller that includes a dump load to dissipate excess power from the PV panel.  D1 is the reference voltage that feed the 393 comparators, and its forward voltage changes with temperature.  It would be better to use a low power LM317 to give a stable 1.25 volts. Instead of a

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2024-05-16 Delta-Sigma Modulator Using 555 IC And Current Source

This circuit is used for converting an analog signal into a digital pulse stream.  Such things as class D audio amplifiers, servo amplifiers, A to D converters, or sending an analog signal across a fiber optic link. The Schematic and explanation here in this webpage. https://lrak.net/wiki/555_Delta-Sigma_Modulator.html The output signal is shown as audio modulated onto

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2024-05-05 Tesla’s New Dojo AI Super-chip Will Be 40 Times More Powerful

A 5 min. YouTube video.  Sam the Electric Viking said that the supercomputer is now in New York.  There will be a new AI data center (being built) in Gigafactory Texas. 

2024-04-20 RCWL-0516 Microwave Doppler Motion Sensor Module Schematic KO4BB

The modules use both the RCWL-9616 and the BISS-0001 but it seems the schematics are all labeled BISS-0001.  The parts values are different.  He gives some good information about them.  They operate at 3.5 and 3.98 GHz – the ones I have were advertised at 5 GHz.  Also he shows his own version that uses a

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2024-04-08 The 555 Timer Chip Was Not Named After The Three 5k Resistors Inside

The 555 timer chip has been extremely popular for over 50 years.  The 555 number was assigned by Hans Kamenzind; it was not named after the Three 5k Resistors. This 1 min YouTube short explains.

2024-03-24 Signal Distortion From High-K Ceramic Capacitors

A good article about signal distortion in a Butterworth low pass opamp filter using C0G and X7R MLCCs.  https://www.edn.com/signal-distortion-from-high-k-ceramic-capacitors/

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