Showing posts with label 555. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 555. Show all posts

Monday, August 25, 2014

Extend Timer Range For The 555

Anyone who has designed diagram using the 555 timer chip will, at some time have wished that it could be programmed for longer timing periods. Timing periods greater than a few minutes are difficult to achieve because component leakage currents in large timing capacitors become significant. There is however no reason to opt for a purely digital solution just yet.

The schema shown here uses a 555 timer in the design but nevertheless achieves a timing interval of up to an hour! The trick here is to feed the timing capacitor not with a constant voltage but with a pulsed dc voltage. The pulses are derived from the un smoothed low voltage output of the power supply bridge rectifier.

Extend Timer Range For The 555  Circuit


The power supply output is not referenced to earth potential and the pulsing full wave rectified signal is fed to the base of T1 via resistor R1. A 100-Hz square wave signal is produced on the collector of T1 as the transistor switches.

The positive half of this waveform charges up the timing capacitor C1 via D2 and P1. Diode D2 prevents the charge on C1 from discharging through T1 when the square wave signal goes low. Push-button S1 is used to start the timing period. This method of charging uses relatively low component values for P1 (2.2 MΩ) and C1 (100 to 200 µF) but achieves timing periods of up to an hour which is much longer than a standard 555 schema configuration.


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Sunday, August 24, 2014

IC 555 Tester Circuits

555 timer tester is a simple circuit that serves to test the condition of IC 555. 555 timer circuit tester, in principle, start the timer 555 in astable multivibrator mode. As an indicator of the status of the timer 555 good condition or damaged to use 2 pieces LED which will light up in a blink alternately when the timer 555 in good condition. And only one will turn on or off all the timer 555 when the condition is broken. 555 timer circuit tester is powered using 9 Volt DC voltage source.

Complete circuit tester 555 as follows.  

How to use 555 timer tester is in conjuction with IC 555 to test the existing IC socket according to the order button. Then activate the power switch to begin testing the 555 timer ic. Then live we observe the LED indicators 2 before, whether flashing alternately (good) or not blink or even die all (timer 555 damaged).

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