The automation device I designed is intended for farmers and owners of dachas with an autonomous water supply system whose key elements are a water source (river, lake, well or borehole), an electric pump and a pressure tank. Unlike similar devices, this one not only performs the main function—controlling the electric pump—but also handles security Read more…
Livestock productivity depends not least on the temperature of the water that animals drink. Warm water is also required for farm needs. That’s why it’s so important to control its heating at any time of the year. This can be entrusted to a simple automatic device. By the way, it will also take care of Read more…
More and more cars are produced every year. Today behind the wheel you can find people of almost any profession—engineers and doctors, architects and workers, farmers and teachers. How to operate a car properly—when to change oil, how to choose spark plugs, what to do when something goes wrong—can be learned from the relevant manuals Read more…
Over the years of being passionate about water tourism, we have tried several variants of carts for transporting kayaks and equipment. And on hikes, we have seen many different portable transport devices. But all of them had design flaws that did not allow them to be used equally well both in short weekend hikes and Read more…
When heating a fireplace or sauna stove at a dacha with wood, the combustion process must be monitored from time to time: adding firewood, increasing draft, etc. The proposed electronic device can replace the “owner’s eye” and remind of this by signalling when the flame in the stove (firebox) diminishes. I experimented a bit and Read more…
Long-term storage of fresh vegetables and fruits is quite a challenge, especially in urban conditions. After carefully studying publications on mini-storage units («M-K» No. 2, 1984, «M-K» No. 8, 9 and 11, 1985), I must note that all these designs have rather complex thermoregulation systems and are made from materials that are rarely available in Read more…
In the second issue of “M-K” for 1976, I read an article “Electronics on a Motorcycle” about an electronic ignition system. It has a DC to AC voltage converter. This circuit requires a battery to operate. Many owners of motorcycles such as “Voskhod”, “Minsk” would like to equip their machines with electronic ignition, but they Read more…
Arch, gate, wicket gate, fence, pathway — as a rule, all these elements of landscaping a new homestead or garden plot are usually not done first: materials, building parts, tools, seedlings are brought in, the plot is processed, a structure is erected — there’s plenty of work, and the fence simply gets in the way Read more…
Winter has arrived, and the flow of motor vehicles on the highways of our country has noticeably thinned. The fleet of cars and motorcycles belonging to individual owners is almost completely put away for the winter. There are many reasons for this, but one of the main ones is the mismatch between automotive “footwear” — Read more…
Almost all bicycle drive designs share a common drawback that reduces their efficiency. This drawback is the uneconomical expenditure of muscular energy when shifting effort from one leg to the other as the pedals pass through the “dead points” (vertical position of the cranks). Most of the muscular effort at that moment is directed toward Read more…
