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2021-02-25 Set Blows Out Substitute Diodes
From FB group I take … Alejandro Cruz He said a diode is a diode but there are more than volts and current. The reverse recovery time is important. If it is rectifying 50 or 60 Hz AC then standard recovery time is good. If it’s rectifying high frequencies then it should be fast recovery
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2021-02-13 Speaker Made From A Steel Sheet And Audio Output Transformer
I made one of these back in 1970 or so. It was inside of a coffee can using the lid for the speaker. This class A power LED driver works good for making a speaker from an audio output transformer and any sheet of steel, even a coffee can with a steel cover. Strip the
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2020-06-23 LM386 1W Mono Amplifier Input Jack Reconfig
A year or so ago I bought a few 1W mono amplifiers from a Chinese eBay seller for cheap – see the attached photos. The only marking on the PC board is YX-1667 but I’m not sure if that’s the potentiometer or the PC board itself. . I found that if I pushed the 3.5mm
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2020-06-10 Dubbing Adapter
This is an adapter to connect a source such as a smartphone stereo headphone output to the input of an MP3 recorder. The view and diagram is looking at the back of the adapter where the plugs are inserted into the jacks. The switch handles are on the far side. The switch on the right
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2020-04-19 Ultrasonic Transceiver Design Idea
Many years ago I saw electronic listening devices for receiving a block of ultrasonic frequencies that bats use and downconvert that block to frequencies that humans can hear. But no one to my knowledge has tried to convert human frequencies up to ultrasonic frequencies so that humans can try to establish a conversation with other
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2020-03-29 AM Osc + Modulation + Buffer
This is from Electronics Illustrated Projects 1968. It shows crystal sockets, but instead a RF coil may be used and its value will be about 220 microhenrys. And C1 and C2 will have to be changed to bring the frequency down to the AM band. The germanium transistors are no longer available so silicon transistors
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2018-08-24 2N3904 & 2N3906 for Output Transistors
From FB group Building Transistor Radios 2018-08-24 – The discussion was about the OTL complementary symmetry audio amplifier that Mr. Barnett has posted several times to the group, which uses a 2N3904 and 2N3906. Willie Barnett Let’s talk about current. Suppose your amp has a 9V supply. When the output transistor is turned fully on,
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2018-01-31 1kHz Wien Bridge Oscillator Kit
Also photo posted to FB group Building Transistor Radios. I got several of these Wien Bridge Oscillator kits from an eBay seller in China. They are built using the circuit from http://redcircuits.com/Page13.htm More information can be found on the wiki for this oscillator. The kits come with no instructions, so to assemble it, use this red circuits
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2017-07-14 Underwater Speaker
From a reply on FB I built a speaker for a swimming pool. It was a large can of steel with an audio transformer mounted inside. The ‘I’ laminations were removed so the ‘E’ laminations could be very close to the end. I drove it with a 2N3055 on a heatsink. The secondary winding must
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