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LED (Light Emitting Diodes) Circuits   Page 8a
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Last Updated on: Friday, October 16, 2009 03:43 AM

Circuits Designed by Dave Johnson, P.E. :
  • Lighthouse LED Flasher
    This was originally designed for a model in a HO train set.  It simulates the behavior of the light from a lighthouse.  The LED intensity gradually increases, then flashes with a bright light and finally decreases slowly in intensity. 

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LED or Incadescent 12 Volt Lamp Fader - (electronic circuit added 6/07)
LED or Lamp Flasher - Minimum parts counting. Designed for3V battery operation (added 9/04)
LED or Lamp Pulser - Astonishing effect4.5 Volt supply (added 9/04)
LED Oscilloscope - George Katz of Balgowlah Boys high in Sydney presented a solid state oscilloscope. He says "probably the best advantage is its very small size and the fact that it can run off the power supply of the circuit being tested. Although it has a low frequency range, it can still be used for most circuits. Its poor resolution will still allow for most waveforms to be visualized." ….(electronic schematic added 11/08)
LED Oscilloscope - Uses a matrix of 100 LED as a display (circuit added 11/06)
LED Photo Sensor Circuit - Here's a circuit that takes advantage of the photo-voltaic voltage of an ordinary LED. The LED voltage is buffered by a junction FET transistor and then applied to the inverting input of an op-amp with a gain of about 20. This produces a change of about 5 volts at the output from darkness to bright light. The 100K potentiometer can be set so that the output is around 7 volts in darkness and falls to about 2 volts in bright light... (added 4/05)
LED Photodetector - Using the light-emitting diode as the photodetector (circuit added 11/06)
LED Pilot Light AC or DC - LED current is constant between 6 and 8 mA at5 to30Vdc (added 4/02)
LED power meter - Used for testing RF transmitters  (electronic circuit added 05/07)
LED Relay Timer - This circuit provides a visual 9 second delay using a 7 segment digital readout LED. When the switch is closed, the CD4010 up/down counter is preset to 9 and the 555 timer is disabLED with the output held high. When the switch is opened,....(circuit / schematic design added 6/06)
LED RF Signal Meter - (circuit added 6/07)
LED senses and displays ambient-light intensity - 11/9/2006    EDN Design Ideas  / (added 05/07)    LED doubles as photosensor and visual indicator of ambient-light intensity.
LED senses and displays ambient-light intensity - (Video Design Ideas- EDN, 9/5/2007  Dhananjay V Gadre of India's Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology explains how an LED can double as a photosensor and a visual indicator of ambient-light intensity. (electronic design idea added 9/2008)
LED Sequencer - The model 4017 integrated circuit is a CMOS counter with ten output terminals. One of these ten terminals will be in a "high" state at any given time, with all others being "low," giving a "one-of-ten" output sequence. If low-to-high voltage pulses are applied to the "clock" (Clk) terminal of the 4017, it will increment its count, forcing the next output into a "high" state...  (circuit added 6/07)
LED shine - If you wish to have some really nice looking LED's shining out of your equipment panel, you may try the following trick: pass repeatedly a fine sandpaper on the surface of any transparent and clear LED until the same  … (added 9/07)
LED Sign - uses two LED arrays to form a 7 X 10 matrix. It produces moving messages or animations stored in an EPROM. (added 7/03)
LED Strobe - This circuit drives a high brightness LED as a strobe.  The BD136 (I had one spare) transistor can be used to drive an LED from a higher voltage source than the PIC operates from if required….   (added 6/06)
LED Stroboscope - This simple LED Stroboscope circuit which I designed, maintains constant
LED Torch - A white LED torch that consumes just24 mW (added 4/02)
LED Torch Circuits - (design added 04/08)
LED Traffic Lights - The LED traffic Light circuit controls 6 LEDs (red, yellow and green) for both north/south directions and east/west directions. The timing sequence is generated using a CMOS 4017 decade counter and a 555 timer. Counter outputs 1 through 4 are wire ORed using 4 diodes so that the (Red - North/South) and (Green - East/West) LEDs will be on during(electronic circuit added 4/05)

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