AUTOMATIC BIT-CHARGER

AUTOMATIC BIT-CHARGERIt is known that in the process of operation of car batteries is required from time to time to do preventive charge-discharge cycles to prevent sulfation of the plates and thereby increase their service life. There are lots of devices, including homemade (see the journal “modelist-Konstruktor” No. 9— 11 ’01), through which the battery is initially discharged to 10.5 V with a current of 1/20 of its capacity and then the voltage on the terminals is communicated during the charge-discharge cycle to 14.2 to 14.5 V. And the ratio of the charge-discharge current components are in the majority supported almost perfect — 10:1, and the pulse durations of the charge-discharge — as 3:1, but…

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MUSIC ALARM

MUSICAL ALARMMUSICAL ALARMBusy with household chores or interesting conversation, we forget, for example, on a boiling kettle. Time to remind him maybe a simple buzzer. However, the oscillators sound frequency (e.g. multivibrators) based on transistor logic or integrated circuits do not always meet their creators. The simplest devices give a smooth tone, barely visible against the background of everyday noise, and sudden and loud “beep-beep” of a more complex designs can scare.

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HOME HEAT STABILIZER

HOME HEAT STABILIZERWe offer homemade household heat stabilizer can be used in incubators, dryers, fruit, mini-greenhouses etc. From existing analogues it is original schematic construction, maintaining the temperature with an accuracy of ±0.1 °C, tolerance with fluctuations in the AC 160 to 240 V, and can operate from a DC source with voltage up to 310 V. the Power regulated heater element can reach 750 watts.

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ARROW UNIVERSAL

UNIVERSAL POINTER(The end. Start at # 1 ’03)
 
To build the most part universal appliance electrical and radio technology used by printed circuit Board (Fig. 3) from foil fiberglass 1.5 mm thick. the Rest of the installation is mounted. Power transformer is separated by an iron partition thickness of 1 mm.

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The WAVEMETER

WAVEMETERneeded for anyone who is keen on constructing of measuring equipment and equipment for radio control models. Simple circuit universal wavemeter, shown in figure, is a conventional crystal radio set, whose output is headphones included the arrow measuring device ИП1 with the DC amplifier transistor T1.

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MEET DISCS

MEET: DISCSIn the old days, when required to perform switching in the electric circuits when the voltage rises to a certain threshold, resorted to the use of polarized electromagnetic relay. However, the substantial size and weight, lack of reliability of the kinematics and contact pairs severely limited the use of these devices. Now in their place came a miniature non-contact thingies called discs. This four-layer semiconductor diodes whose structure is like a two transistor: p-n-p and n-p-n type, with the base of one is connected to the collector of the second, forming the internal positive feedback (Fig. 1).

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THREE-PHASE — IN HOME NETWORK

THREE-PHASE — IN HOME NETWORK“For the treatment of infield has decided to replace the tiller internal combustion engine electric. Already got polutoraterabaytny the motor. But it is three phase. How to connect to the network, where only one phase and “my best”?
 
N. PARIN, Kursk oblast
 
“I heard that three-phase electric motors in the home network the homebrew use phase-shifting (but not electrolytic) capacitors of large capacitance. Is this true?
 
V. CHUPIKOV, Dnipropetrovsk