Voltmeter circuit using LED
Car Battery Voltmeter Circuit
Description
This is a very useful circuit which when installed on your car gives the voltage of you car battery in a LED dot display form.The circuit is based on four comparators made of quad op amp LM324.The inverting inputs of IC are kept at at reference voltages 5.6V,5.2V,4.8V,4.4V respectively at pins 2,6,9,13 by resistors ,R3,R4,R5,R6.The battery voltage is directly fed to the pin inverting input through the voltage divider arrangement using R1 and R7.When there is variation in the input supply the out put of each op amp goes high accordingly as they are wired as voltage comparators.The corresponding LED glows.
Voltmeter Circuit Diagram and Parts List
Voltmeter Schematic
Notes
- IC LM 324 consists of4 op amps in one package , so power supply is common and is shown once (pin 4 and 11).
- To setup , connect the circuit to battery ,adjust R6 so that required voltages are available at the inverting pins( refer description to get the required voltages).
- Fix the LED’s on the dash board and mark the voltages near to it as shown in circuit diagram.The gadget is now ready.
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For your Car Battery Voltmeter Circuit, would you be able to tell me what resistor values I would need to monitor a 6 V supply? I am looking to build a circuit to visually indicate whether a device is receiving 5.7V-6.3V (Indicating all is well), 3V-5.69V(Might be a short) or Below 3V(basically dead).
Thanks In advance,
Matt Bragg
First of all, it seems unnecessary to use two pins of the pot (R6). Second of all, I understand this circuit must work for you, however, why did you choose for the LEDs to be powered with the unregulated voltage of your car battery when it can sweep from 11-14 volts? Also, R8-R11 are pretty large for your typical LED resistor. Your probably getting 9-12 mA per LED when they can take up to 20 mA
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How would you change this circuit for voltages less than 4? I teach grade 9 students and a project is a wind turbine. This would be great for them to see some yellow, red and green LEDs
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Что-то я почти ничего не понял..
какая часть вам наклоняю понимаю.
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