Category Electronics

On-Off Switch using relay

Here’s how industrial equipment is started and stopped using push buttons(On-Off Switch). The circuit is called a “locked-out relay.” It uses an ordinary relay and the ON switch activates the relay to close the terminals. When the switch is released,…

Simple Battery Charger

Here is a very simple example of a low-cost battery charger for 12 v 7Ah lead-acid batteries. As shown in the figure, diodes 1N4001 (D1) and 1N4001 (D2) form a full-wave rectifier. The rectified voltage appears across SCR1 and the…

LED Driver using 7805 and LM317

LED Driver using 7805 The 7805 can be converted into a content-current device by connecting a resistor as shown below.   As the 12v rises from 0v, the 7805 starts to work and when the input voltage is 4v, the…

LED Torch with adjustable brightness

The Led torch with adjustable brightness circuit uses LM3914 as the basis of a 10 step variable brightness current-regulated white LED . This circuit has only four components in the control and regulation circuit: R1,R2, VR1 and LM3914. Part List 1.…

Mains Powered LED Lights

All mains powered LED circuits work with 240 volt AC current. Mains powered LED – Single LED The power diode in the first diagram is designed to discharge the 220n during one half of the cycle so that the capacitor…