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Many thing
in our daily need that can be easily by implement a simple applied technology.
So our life become easy and comfort. We can make anything work automatic, or
work without our intervention so if we forget to run it, or to turn off it, they
will be done by their shelf.
By a simple
applied technology, such as electronics, we can solve many simple problem as
mentioned above. With the small dimension of electronic component and small
power too, we can realize our need, such as automatic lamp, remote controller,
water tank level controller.
Beside all
that mention above, we can make many device that valuable to our need, such as
decorative lamp, amplifier, detector etc. The simple applied electronic circuits
are divided in to two groups, analog and digital circuitry.
Analog
electronic circuits are those in which signals may vary continuously with time
to correspond to the information being represented. Electronic equipment like
voltage amplifiers, power amplifiers, tuning circuits, radios, and televisions
are largely analog (with the exception of their control sections, which may be
digital, especially in modern units).
In digital
electronic circuits, electric signals take on discrete values, which are not
dependent upon time, to represent logical and numeric values. These values
represent the information that is being processed. The transistor is one of the
primary components used in discrete circuits, and combinations of these can be
used to create logic gates. These logic gates may then be used in combination to
create a desired output from an input. In this page you can find one of the
circuit.
Automatic Battery Charger
Basically, battery charging has mean to flow DC current
in to battery continue for several hour (depends on battery capacity and
charging current). Charging process is stopped if the voltage of battery
reached the maximum rating. At this voltage, if charging is not stopped then
can make battery damage because of over heating ( battery get shorten life).
To avoid this condition, it will be better if we use
automatic battery charger. System will charge the battery if its voltage
drops to the lower voltage level and stops the charging process if its
voltage reaches the upper voltage level.
Figure 1 is the simple example for automatic battery
charger. This circuit work by the principle of voltage comparing that done
by two op-amps. The low voltage level is detected by op-amp 2 and
op-amp 1 detect the up voltage level. These op-amps work complementary, at a
time only one op-amps has low voltage output. This low voltage
(approximately zero) is used to set or clear the D flip-flop that same
meaning with charging and stop charging. The lower and upper voltage level
is tuned by VR1 and VR2.

Figure 1. Automatic Battery Charger Circuit.

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