Current Sensing for High Voltage Application

High voltage current sensing/monitoring can be designed using LTC6101 op-amp. The following current sensing circuit is capable of measuring electrical current in 500 volts system. Here is the schematic diagram of the circuit: Two external Mosfets is added to hold off the voltage, allows the LTC6101 to be connected to a very high potentials and measure the current flow. The […]

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Active Power Factor Correction Circuit

Active power factor correction stabilize the electrical demand of a device to give the best power factor characteristic of many types of loads.  To meet power factor regulation, a low cost solution should be designed. In many application, the need of high DC voltage is usually implemented by a direct rectification of the AC line followed by bulk capacitor filtering. […]

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Lead Acid Battery Charger Using Max773 IC

This battery charger circuit use a flyback converter topology, and implements a current-limited power supply to charge lead-acid batteries.  Here is the schematic diagram of the charger circuit: The flyback transformer provide isolation and voltage input range flexibility, event at supply voltage lower that the battery voltage. Monitoring the charging current is done by sensing the output using MAX471 current […]

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Electronic Metronome Emulates Mechanical Sound

It would be cool and elegant to a have mechanical sound character for our electronic metronome. This electronic metronome circuit will produce such sound, making your life more fun. Here is schematic diagram of the circuit: The metronome circuit consists of two 555 oscillators. The first oscillator is used to make high frequency tone, and the second one is used […]

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Quadrature Oscillator

Quadrature oscillator generate two sine-wave signal, but one signal is shifted 90 degree from the other signal. One output that lead the other called cosine signal, and the other is called sine. Here is the schematic diagram of the circuit: This circuit is another type of pahase shift oscillator, with three phase shifter sections. Each section is configured to produce […]

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Self-Powered Current Sensing Circuit

This current sensing circuit sense the current at the high side (between positive supply and load). This circuit take the benefit of the microampere supply current and Rail-to-Rail input of the LT1494 op-amp. Here is the schematic diagram of the circuit: Look at the op-amp, the inverting input is connected directly to the output, and this negative feedback will keep […]

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