
A phase control circuit can be used to control the power delivered to an AC load. The phase control circuit control the AC waveform, cutting the cycle to give full cycle, half cycle, zero cycle, or somewhere in between. You can say this circuit is similar to a dimmer circuit, but the switching is synchronized [...]
Read the rest of this article [..]

Speed control for dc motor (electric motor) can be implemented using open loop or closed loop. Closed loop controller, also known as servo controller, or a feedback control, gives the best performance since the loop will maintain the actual speed to follow the reference. In simple application, an open loop controller can be enough if [...]
Read the rest of this article [..]

LM56 is a monolithic thermostat designed for simple temperature control. The chip has two programmable threshold that can be used to drive a fan and or alarm. Here is the schematic diagram of the fan control circuit: /caption] The circuit will turn on the fan when the temperature rise above 50 [...]
Read the rest of this article [..]

Computer-controlled 4-20mA current loop is useful to control some industrial equipments. By current loop, transmitting the signal over long distant should be resistant from noise interference. This computer-controlled 4 – 20mA is designed to operate on a single supply over a range of 3.3V to 30V. The zero reference of 4 [...]
Read the rest of this article [..]

This is a HI-FI tone control circuit with high Z input. This circuit is used to control HI-FI tone. Here is the circuit: To buffer op-amp operated feedback type tone control circuit, this circuit uses 2N3684 JFET. The 2N3684 JFET is implemented on this circuit because it has low noise characteristics and provides [...]
Read the rest of this article [..]

For the best advantage as a low noise high input impedance device, the preamp and tone control uses JFET. If the circuit reaches harmonic distortion levels of less than 0.05% with a S/N ratio of over 85 dB, all device parameters are non-critical. 18 dB of cut and boost is allowed by the tone controls. [...]
Read the rest of this article [..]