COLD CONTROL IC

COLD CONTROL CHIPIn refrigerators with mechanical regulator temperature measured on the evaporator. It happens that the evaporator becomes covered with frost, and the thermostat begins to operate with an error, making failures in work of all lagoapraia. To combat this unwanted phenomenon (including — with the advent of frost) refrigerator has to periodically disable. In some designs there is a semi-automatic defrost mode, which the system is embedded a heating element with the corresponding button.

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WHEN THE TENSION IS GONE

WHEN THE TENSION IS GONE

Many of the houses in the villages and country houses in winter, left without owners, are empty, although things are (sometimes valuable) and appliances remain in them. And then waiting for the owners the risk of theft, so they prudently put in a house alarm is usually powered from a household outlet of 220 V. But in rural areas quite often happens, especially in bad weather, gusts of wind that the voltage in the lighting network “disappears”.

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CONVENIENT SOLDERING IRON

CONVENIENT SOLDERING IRONThe soldering iron is any homebrew. But those who have to deal with modern electro – and radio equipment, this tool is something special. And the requirements for it are quite hard: with small size, low supply voltage and low power consumption to ensure the excellent quality of soldering. And with the maximum comfort, including temperature controller soldering tip and a stand with a tray under flux solder and tinning.

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BATTERIES – ADAPTER

BATTERY ADAPTER

Today, any manufactured device can be supplemented, adapted to the specific household needs of Amateur radio and give the device a seemingly non-core second life.
 
For example, a widespread audible alarm, the appearance of which is shown in the photo, has excellent opportunities at low cost and small size.

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ULTRASOUND AGAINST RODENTS

ULTRASOUND AGAINST RODENTS

Among the elastic vibrations of the air special interest to long causes imperceptible to the human ear ultrasound (from Latin ultra, next, over, beyond), the lower frequency limit of which is considered to be 20 kHz. Insects, bats and even cetaceans have successfully used this natural gift: some are for communication, others for hunting, others for the locations of terrain and obstacle avoidance in poor visibility conditions.

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PLAYER POWERED WELLENREITER

Buying a player up to accommodate for his food during his frequent touring on-Board generator. As the adapter decided to use a homemade solid state rectifier. The implementation of the ideas started by selecting a circuit diagram of the valve half-wave diode with a smoothing capacitor. Soon he was convinced regular Wellenreiter power 3-5,4 W and an output voltage of 6-7 V and the modified on-Board power grid using a rectifier for key any diode average power and capacitor µf 500-2200 quite cope with the new task. In the end, the player was to receive a 3-volt power supply when the Bicycle is moving at a speed exceeding 10 km/h with the included headlight and not less than 8 km/h is de-energized.

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WHAT IS BLINKING ON THE TREE?

THAT FLASHES ON THE TREE?Among the variety of flashing Christmas lights increasingly popular get the “ultra simple”, consisting… only of the LEDs. Instead of the usual piles of circuit design (with electronic keys, which are intermittently open-closed low-frequency RC, RL or LC oscillators) here compact semiconductor light emitter. However, the LEDs acting as a kind of microswitches, not simple (Fig. 1A—1 b). The name of this class of optoelectronic devices, developed at the junction of integrated microelectronics and optics — Blinking LED lamps (flashing LEDs, or MSV).

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HOME SERVICE TIME

Hoping to equip the apartment “talking” for hours, tried to collect an acceptable design using standard domestic circuits. But once faced with the complexities of the “firmware” electronic memory, decided as the basis for its hours to accommodate wrist alarm TALKING WATCH — cheap consumer goods from China. The result was an information system capable of interesting, in my opinion, and many readers of the journal “modelist-Konstruktor”.

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THE SUV ON THE AIRWAVES

SUV ON THE AIRWAVES

RC model car-road type buggies are increasingly present in the pages of specialized magazines for modelers and for good reason. The popularity of radio-buggy is growing steadily; apparently, these models will have more admirers than RC racing “formulas”. The reason is simple: for radiology not need specialized tracks with high quality coating, it is quite usual “primer”, supplemented by artificial obstacles.

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WHY STING “JADWIGA”?

WHY STING

Bee venom — a valuable and irreplaceable raw material for many drugs — get different. For example, when using the device “Jadwiga”. It takes on a special frame-dosborne placed in the hive, annoying the electric impulses that cause bees to defend. Jala frame, winged healer leave on her own, fast crystallizing venom (see “Mo-delist-Konstruktor” No. 12’92 6’99).