Dynamic Compressor, Self Powered Circuit Design

This dynamic compressor will give about 20dB compression, at very wide input signal range 100 mV to 10 V.  Another advantage of this circuit is that this circuit doesn’t need any power supply, we call it self powered, or more accurately, signal-powered compressor. Here is the schematic diagram of the circuit: A part of the signal is rectified by D1 […]

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AC Powered-LED Circuit

The high durability nature of a light emitting diode (LED) make it suitable for ON/OFF indicator application. Because the limitation on low operating voltage, LEDs are normally applied on low voltage application.  Fortunately, there is a simple method to apply LED indicator for high powerline voltage: reactance of a capacitor can be used to limit the current without dissipating any […]

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Current to Voltage Converter

In the simplest form, current to voltage converter can be implemented as simple as one resistor,  since a voltage is developed when an electrical current flow against a resistance. The problem is that the resistance always affect the current by  decreasing the current flow, and the current to voltage conversion is not accurate. In some cases, the resistor that convert […]

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Integrator Circuit With Reset

Integration is one of basic signal processing that can be done in analog domain. Using operational amplifier (op-amp), integration operation can be done with very simple circuit with very high accuracy. Here is the schematic diagram of an integrator circuit: The resistor R2 should have the same value with R1 since R2 is employed to minimize the offset error due […]

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Temperature Controller for Crystal Oven

The temperature of a quartz crystal for oscillator should to be kept constant to operate at very stable frequency. This oven temperature controller is suitable for such purpose.  Here is the schematic diagram of the temperature control circuit: Although this circuit is small and simple, the design use a PWM output to preserve the efficiency.  The circuit uses LM335 temperature […]

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