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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RELAY-THE DEFENDER

RELAY-THE DEFENDER

Modern charger (storage) and power supply units (PSUs) are equipped, as a rule, electronic protection against short-circuit (SC) output. However, in Amateur practice and meet simple network sources of electricity, consisting of only the step-down transformer and rectifier. The necessary components to complement their electronic protection sometimes the road is not for everyone and not always available.

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MYSTERIOUSLY FLICKERING LIGHTS…

MYSTERIOUSLY FLICKERING LIGHTS...It’s hard to imagine New year without festive lights and a Christmas tree with a mysterious flickering lights. However elektrogirlyandy industrial manufacturing not everyone is like: get bored of the monotonous flashing, and is harmful, they say it’s for health. I propose to replace these “flashers” an improvised device, lights which Shine like candles — with smooth change of brightness. Among its advantages are the simplicity of an electric circuit, which will be able to collect anyone, and the lack of scarce or expensive electronic components.

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LASER SHOOTING

LASER SHOOTING GALLERY

Popular infantile pastime became now the so-called laser (light) pointer. Produced as a miniature working tool for teachers, lecturers and guides, it attracts the daring fans of science fiction an opportunity to play “the hyperboloid of engineer Garin”, highlighting the highly directional light beam of a particular item of interest at a considerable distance.

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LASER PHONE

LASER PHONE

Materials about the specific features and infinite possibilities of lasers, including semiconductor, have been published in the journal “modelist-Konstruktor” (for example, No. 8’2001). Told also of how to adapt widespread laser pointer (LU) in a homemade optic dash, where it emitted the light pulse performs a function of photon bullets (see “modelist-Konstruktor” No. 12’2001). It was stressed that luminescence intensity and a number of other physical parameters LU depend on the voltage applied to the laser led.

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RELAY PROTECTION

 RELAY PROTECTIONVoltage instability in the regional power lines, unfortunately, are not so rare. Especially during strong winds, when the wires of overhead lines of 0.4 can overlap. Because of the suffering of electro-, radio – and TV equipment, included in the housing network, where the voltage can suddenly become equal, say, 100, or Vice versa, 350 V. However, for my appliances I have five years did not worry, as the anomalous voltage in the network it protects a homemade relay system.

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SVETOOPTIKA! ANY!

SVETOOPTIKA! ANY!

Most machines of lighting effects (AES), including homemade design for the decoration of discos, Christmas and other holidays (see “modelist-Konstruktor” No. 4 and 5 in 1995), can at best give only a reprogrammable combinations of light. Even with all the variety of used circuit design, these devices usually can not at least in a time interval arbitrarily change the order of playable effects and patterns. I offered as my development devoid of these shortcomings.

ANTENNA IN HASTE

ANTENNA IN HASTE

Anyone who at least once in a lifetime chance to deal with wires, you can make original TV antenna (Fig.1) no worse than industrial zigzag.
The idea of this simple device I made in the years of his student life. The antenna was so successful that they continue to use it. The familiar “spread”, and they liked the design, which was given the name “Student”.

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