Electronics

What kind of latch or flip-flop is the best analog to my pair of night lights?

The Wikipedia article on voltage doublers says that a Greinacher circuit works by “following a Villard cell stage with what is in essence a peak detector or envelope detector stage”.

What if you put the peak detector or envelope detector stage after a full wave bridge rectifier? What wave form would result?

I used a 3.3 µF, 370V_AC capacitor in a previous Villard Circuit voltage doubler, but I used 67 nF capacitors in a Greinacher Circuit voltage doubler.

That’s a huge capacitance difference. Did I do the Greinacher Circuit correctly?

I built some simple voltage doublers to see what wave forms result.

I built a full wave bridge rectifier. I attached it to a doorbell transformer and an oscilloscope to see what the resulting waveform looks like.

I put an oscilloscope on a doorbell transformer to see what the output waveform looks like.

I blew out another LED on my wireless charger detector. So I modified it to be simpler, and more interesting.

A few years ago, I realized I had a shoe box with several Raspberry Pi single-board computers just sitting around.

I came across an article saying that interfacing something called a “DHT-11” is a rite of passage for Raspberry Pi users.

I rebuilt my original astable multivibrator with the 2N3904, transistors, better matched capacitors and 10K and 68K Ω resistors from the improved astable multivibrator I wanted to see if that made a difference in the original circuit’s behavior.

I built an “improved” astable multivibrator circuit from:

IMPROVED ASTABLE MULTIVIBRATOR, by RAJU BADDI, National Center for Radio Astrophysics, TIFR, Ganeshkhind P.O Bag 3, Pune University Campus, PUNE 411007, Maharashtra, INDIA; baddi@ncra.tifr.res.in

Here’s the schematic of the improved circuit:

Original astable multivibrator post.