Forget about flea power A-V links. This one has an output of 0.5W for a range of about 200 meters using simple "whip" antennas. You will have seen adverts for devices of this type - they've become quite popular in recent years. Operating on a frequency of 2.4GHz (that's 2,400,000,000Hz for the uninitiated!), most have about 10mW or so output and while they work well over a short range, the range is limited by the low power. This design has much higher power - around 0.5W output, in fact. So as you might expect, the range is very significantly extended. With the simple coax cable "whip" antennas shown here, the range is reliably 200m or more. But if you use a simple dipole antenna, you could expect much more range - maybe 10 times or more. Perhaps a word or two about how and why this is possible is in order. It is sometimes difficult for people to understand how changing antennas can give longer range. The simplest analogy I can think of is using your own vo...
The latch-up alarm described here is based on single IC NE555, configured as an astable multivibrator. The timing components are selected such that the oscillation frequency of the multivibrator lies within the audio range. Instead of a flip-flop stage, an opto-coupler (MCT2E) is used for latching of the alarm. Under normal condition, pin 4 of IC1 is pulled to ground via resistor R2, and its output at pin 3 is held ‘low’. Circuit Diagram: When switch S1 is pressed momentarily, transistor T1 conducts to bring reset pin 4 of 555 to logic ‘high’. As a result, IC1 is activated and the alarm starts to sound. Simultaneously, the LED inside opto-coupler glows and the phototransistor conducts. As a result, trigger transistor T1 gets base bias via phototransistor and resistor R6. The alarm sounds continuously until reset switch S2 is pressed. When switch S2 is pressed, transistor T1 is switched ‘off’ to bring pin 4 of IC1 to logic ‘low’ and the alarm is disabled. So...
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