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Friday, March 12, 2010 12:07 PM
 

Circuits Designed by Dave Johnson, P.E. :
  • LASER/LED LIGHT OUTPUT INTENSITY METER
    This circuit uses a large 1cm X 1cm silicon PIN photo diode and a transimpedance amplifier to measure the light power output of infrared and visible LEDs and laser diodes. It can be modified to produce almost any milliwatts to volts scale factor. It can be connected to either a multi-meter or an oscilloscope.
  • LIGHT RECEIVER WORKS FROM 1KHz TO OVER 70MHz
    This circuit uses one tiny C-MOS inverter IC to form a modulated light receiver with a very fast response. It is designed around a PIN photo diode that is packaged for use with plastic optical fibers. It can be used as an optical fiber receiver. By using the open end of the optical fiber it can "sniff" out any modulated light signals.
  • Low Value Capacitance Meter
    This circuit was originally designed to measure the volume of fluid inside a medical syringe.   As designed, it produces a zero to 5 volt output, corresponding to a capacitance change of about 10 picofarads.  With a digital voltmeter, at its output, it can resolve a capacitance change of 0.002 picofarads or 2 femtofarads.  (added 12/04)


Links to electronic circuits, electronic schematics, designs for engineers, hobbyists, students & inventors:
Logic Chip Tester - (electronic design added 6/07)
Logic designer and breadboarding system for digital circuits - (diagram added 05/07)
Logic offers complementary switch Control - 12/06/01 EDN-Design Ideas:  The complementary-switch controller in Figure 1 uses a few inverter gates to provide drive signals for the complementary switches. Complementary-switch configurations find widespread use in synchronous-rectification circuits, charge pumps, full-bridge control circuits,.....(design idea added 1/05)
Logic probe - (schematic / circuit added 05/07)
Logic Probe (Jose Pino) - An useful and easy to build Logic Probe with Pulse injector. An schematic of a "digital version" is included.

 

Logic Probe MkIIB - Essential for servicing all types of Digital circuits ….(diagram added 05/07)
Logic Probe uses Bicolor LED - 03/13/98 EDN-Design Ideas:  (design idea added 03/03/03)
Logic probe with integral pulser function - (schematic / circuit added 05/07)
Logic Probe with Pulse - (Tony van Roon's diagram added 05/07)
Logic Probe with Pulse CMOS - (Tony van Roon's circuit / schematic added 6/05)
Logic Probe(3), Audible, TTL/CMOS - (Tony van Roon's schematic / circuit added 08/09)
Logic Probe3 Audible TTL/CMOS - (Tony van Roon's circuit added 9/04)
Logic PSU with OverVoltage Protection - 6 volt regulated power supply for TTL and 74LS series integrated circuits, includes output Overvoltage fault protection (added 5/02)
Logic Pulser - Has DIP switch for setting output waveform characteristics.  (schematic / circuit added 05/07)
Loop Sensor - Many security systems use a closed loop of wires and switches arranged so that whenever a door or window is opened, the loop will be broken and the alarm will sound. An obvious problem is that someone can tamper with the system, short out the loop, and later on, come back and burglarize the premises...(added 08/07
LOPIC Logic Probe with Pulser - (circuit added 9/04)
Low cost BER tester measures errors in low data rate applications - 12/05/05 EDN-Design Ideas:  You don't need an expensive pattern generator to produce a PRBS (pseudorandom-bit-sequence)signal for making elementary BER (bit-error-rate)measurements in low-data-rate continuous-transmission systems.....(design idea added 05/07)
Low cost current monitor tracks high DC currents - 03/01/07 EDN-Design Ideas:  Oscillator's output tracks current as it varies inductor's core characteristics.....(design idea added 03/07)
Low cost relative humidity Transmitter uses single logic IC - 11/08/01 EDN-Design Ideas:  The low-cost percentage-relative-humidity radio transmitter in Figure 1 operates in a cold-storage warehouse for vegetable storage at temperatures of 1 to 5 C. It is generally difficult to collect such data from a low-temperature area with high humidity.....(design idea added 10/03)
Low cost RF sniffer finds 2.4 GHz sources - 11/23/06 EDN-Design Ideas:  Locate interference sources in the ISM band.....(design idea added 12/06)
Low Cost Tamper-Resistant Energy Meter Based on the ADE7761 with Missing Neutral Function - AN-687 Analog Devices Application Notes  (app note added 6/06)
Low Cost Watt-Hour Energy Meter Based on the AD7755 Chinese Version -5/2000 - AN-559 Analog Devices Application Notes  (app note added 6/06)
Low Cost Watt-Hour Energy Meter Based on the ADE7755 - AN-559 Analog Devices Application Notes  (app note added 6/06)
Low Cost Watt-Hour Energy Meter Based on the ADE7757 - AN-679 Analog Devices Application Notes  (app note added 6/06)
Low Noise Amplifier for Phase Noise Measurements - The phase noise of low noise oscillators and signal sources is usually determined by measuring the audio noise voltage at the output of the phase comparator in a phase-locked loop. The phase comparator is typically a low noise doubly-balanced mixer with a phase slope from a few tenths of a volt per radian to a few volts per radian. The low.... (added 7/03)
Low Power LED Voltmeter - This is a low power voltmeter circuit that can be used with alternative energy systems that run on 12 and 24 volt batteries. The voltmeter is an expanded scale type that indicates small voltage steps over the 10 to 16 volt range for 12 volt batteries and over the 22 to 32 volt(electronic diagram added 6/03)
Low power timer - Low power timer. It can operate with a CR2032 litium battely.  (added 6/06)
Low power Voltage to frequency converter makes a wireless probe for testing an inductive power supply - 05/26/05 EDN-Design Ideas:  Inductive pickup measures low-power circuit's supply.....(design idea added 11/05)
Low Speed AVR Oscilloscope - A few months ago as I was surfing on the net, I saw an oscilloscope based on PIC18F2550 microcontroller and a KS0108 controller based graphical LCD. That was Steven Cholewiak's web site. I had never seen before so amazing microcontroller, only oscilloscope. That was realy impressive circuit, so I decided to design something like that but in C language instead of assembly ….(electronic schematic added 11/08)
Low Value Capacitance Meter - This circuit was originally designed to measure the volume of fluid inside a medical syringe.   As designed, it produces a zero to 5 volt output, corresponding to a capacitance change of about 10 picofarads.  With a digital voltmeter, at its output, it can resolve a capacitance change of 0.002 picofarads or 2 femtofarads.  (added 12/04) ….(designed by David A. Johnson)
Low Voltage , High Current Time Delay Circuit - (diagram added 05/07)
LT5528 WCDMA ACPR and AltCPR Measurements - AN99 Linear Technology ACPR (adjacent channel power ratio) and AltCPR (alternate channel power ratio) are both measures of spectral regrowth. They are important performance metrics for digital communication systems that use, for example, WCDMA (wideband code division multiple access) modulation.....(app note added 2/06).
Lux Meter - This is a simple Lux Meter that is suitable for beginners.  (added 6/06)

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