THE TUBES BURNED OUT…

THE FUSES BLEW.Familiar, perhaps, to every household situation: podklyuchayut all household appliances, which is in the apartment, but in the end — tube on the flap burn out from overload. More precisely, due to the excessively increased current in them melt, breaking the electrical circuit, a special low-melting insert and safeguard wiring from the further heating and ignition. Save these simple, in General, the devices and from large troubles in the so-called short circuit due to insulation breakdown, the inclusion of faulty electrical equipment or in the course of work on nabestaanden (particularly dangerous and inappropriate!) sockets, lamp cartridges, etc.

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THE BEST SAUNA HEATER

BEST SAUNA HEATEROutfitting your bathroom under the bath, he decided to make a strong (about 3 — 3.5 kW) and reliable heater. The most appropriate seemed to be elektrokemisk in a tin bucket with asbestos cement terminal block and brass studs, the closed hinged metal housing (Fig. 1). But when I placed this heater in the socket, felt the smell of burning.

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SAMOVAR: AND WOOD, AND A CURRENT

SAMOVAR: AND WOOD, AND A CURRENTSince the house has antique samovar, a sin not to use them at least on special occasions. You can even with the ignition not to bother, but just ready with boiling water, poured inside. At first, I did not yet matured the decision to equip this relic of a tubular electric heater (Teh), while maintaining almost unchanged the appearance of the samovar and the basis of its unique design.

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ELECTRIC IMPROVISED

ELECTRIC IMPROVISED

There are several options of home-made electrical devices for cooking, made of “junk”, sometimes unfairly perceived as anything not suitable junk. For example, an outdated (if not leaky) metal pan. In the country and the shortage of time this is a very reasonable basis for a simple (cheap and reliable) electric. And the pot here is better suited to high — 140 mm or more. Becoming homemade design casing, it will be less warm. The handles of such tiles can be taken without any glove even after continuous hours of work — burns are excluded.

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TRIAC CONTROLLER

TRIAC CONTROLLERCompact electronic controller, enabling a smooth and in a fairly wide range to change the brightness of the incandescent filaments, power water heater or the speed of rotation of the shaft of the AC motor, can make even inexperienced hams. Because the proposed device is familiar to many publications previous unique and well-proven technical solution: the triac with economical control by pulse-phase method. Besides the principal circuit diagram complements fleshed out a printed circuit Board with specification of the layout of the installation. And radio the design used is quite common.

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UNIVERSAL BATTERY CHARGER

UNIVERSAL CHARGERAs you know, the cost of electrochemical cells has increased significantly. Therefore, many owners of portable radio equipment are beginning to use batteries. And they must be timely and properly charge. Of course, when the apparatus used a bit (and besides, it is all the same type), the problems with no charge. After all, to get a good charger (memory) for a renewable source of electricity in a single “radioimage” is much easier than, say, to ensure the viability and flashlight (and it 2хД-0.55 C), and all-wave receiver (5хД and 0.26 D), and tester (Sht-0,06). In addition, note that the proposed market memory in the majority of the road is not very reliable, is designed only for a certain type of batteries, and a strictly fixed number of elements.

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POUR TRANSISTOR

WATER-TRANSISTOR

The heat of summer. The sky is cloudless. Without irrigation the garden can not be saved. In this case, it is good to use a plant that waters itself. The device is an electronic relay on the transistor VT1, the base and the emitter of which is connected to the plates of conductive material stuck in the ground at a distance of 3 — 3.5 cm from each other. Because raw land has a low resistance, it can be considered that the base of the transistor is directly connected to its emitter (the transistor is closed). But as soon as the soil begins to dry, a semiconductor device is opened, and actuates electromagnetic relay K1 and its contact pair completing a circuit of the actuator of the electromagnet, lifting the flap of the water tank irrigation.

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THE TRANSDUCER PROTECTOR

GAUGE PROTECTOR

Motion detectors (DD) based on the Fresnel lens and pyroelectric detectors can be used not only for its intended purpose – to turn the light on or as part of a burglar alarm installed in the room. Cars – this is perhaps the most promising area of application ideas for portable motion sensors. With the constant growth in the number of cars owned by the population, the proposal to actively use there DD can be interesting to a wide circle of people. And here’s why…

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ELECTRONIC “MATCH”

ELECTRONIC The proposed electrosurgery, I am sure, will find its rightful place in the kitchens have gas stoves, when the ignition of the gas burner appliances and other devices with the “blue fuel”. It is convenient and trouble free. It can make for a night or two, pre-armed with a small piece of one-sided foil fiberglass and a minimum of inexpensive and common parts. A faithful guide to action will serve as a sketch of the printed circuit Board and Assembly drawing.

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