Circuit Lake

The projects shows you how to build simple low cost Inductance Meter based on popular IC 555. The 555 works in its most simple rectangle oscillation configuration. In this mode, the duty-cycle should be around 50%, but this depends on the load on pin 3. Over the amplifying transistor Q1 the AC is given [...]

The purpose of the project is to build a simple charge controller for solar and wind systems based on IC NE555 Timer. Michael Davis, the designer, decides to use IC 555 instead of MCU because he worried that the microcontrollers would be too expensive or difficult to obtain in some parts of the world, [...]

Crystal radio is the simplest type of radio receiver, and can be handmade with a few inexpensive parts, like an antenna wire, tuning coil of copper wire, crystal detector and earphones. It needs no battery or power source and runs on the power received from radio waves by a long wire antenna.

ESR (equivalent series resistance) is one of the characteristics that define the performance of an electrolytic capacitor. Low ESR is highly desirable in a capacitor as any ripple current through the capacitor causes the capacitor to heat up due to the resistive loses. Typical capacitor checker measures the capacity of the test capacitor. Some advanced [...]