24V flasher circuit

Description. The circuit shown here works from 24V DC and can flash two 24V bulbs alternatively. The circuit is nothing but an astable multivibrator operating at 1Hz and 50% duty cycle. The lamp to be flashed is connected in place of the collector resistor (Rc) of a typical design. 2N3055 transistors which are well known for their ruggedness are used here. They can handle collector currents up to 10A. So a wide range of lamps (in terms of wattage) can be connected to this circuit. Circuit Diagram. Notes. Assemble the circuit on a good quality PCB. Use 24V DC for…

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Stepper motor controller

Description. Here is the circuit diagram of a simple stepper motor controller using only elementary parts. The driver circuit uses, four transistor (SL100) to drive the motor windings, two NOT gates and one XOR gate to decode the two bit control logic to drive the four windings of the motor. The diodes D1 to D4 protects the corresponding transistors from transients generated during the switching of motor windings. d0 and d1 are the control logics which determines the direction of rotation as well as speed. Circuit diagram with Parts list. Notes. The control logic for the circuit can be obtained…

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100 Watt inverter circuit

100 Watt Inverter Description Here is a 100 Watt inverter circuit using minimum number of components.I think it is quite difficult to make a decent one like this with further less components.Here we use CD 4047 IC from Texas Instruments for generating the 100 Hz  pulses  and four 2N3055 transistors for driving the load. The IC1 Cd4047 wired as an astable multivibrator produces two 180 degree out of phase 100 Hz pulse trains.These pulse trains are  preamplifed by the two TIP122 transistors.The out puts of the TIP 122 transistors are amplified by four 2N 3055 transistors (two transistors for each…

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