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Hacking Car Wipers for Easy Control

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How do you want to have your wipers become more intelligent? In this way, they could remember how frequent you need to use them. But of course, this will need the help of an ATmega8L microcontroller. When you need to activate the wiper, you just press the button and it will run in one course. There is a 45 seconds waiting time that if you do not press the button, it will go on standby while telling itself that only one course is needed. The system will activate the wiper again if the button is pressed before 45 seconds. The good thing is that it will remember the interval when you pressed the button. Click here to visit the project page.

Car 12V to 50V DC Converter Circuit Diagram

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Car 12V to 50V DC Converter Circuit Diagram This circuit for Car audio input battery 12V to 50VDC, It use transistor and IC TL072.

A Pioneer In Their Own Right The Pioneer Car Stereo

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Look at any good car stereo system and you’ll probably see a Pioneer car stereo unit plugged into the console. Alongside with quality speakers and a strong lineup of accessories like LCD panels and navigational devices, Pioneer products/Pioneer car stereos have earned a huge following the world over.   The Pioneer Company is a Tokyo-based corporation, and is one of the world leaders in digital entertainment products. The Pioneer Company was first founded in 1938 in Tokyo as a small radio and speaker repair shop business but today, they are recognized as a leader in technology advancements in the consumer electronics industry. The company is truly deserving of their name. They are respected for many innovations such as interactive cable TV, the Laser Disc player, developing the first Compact Disc player for the car and the first detachable face car stereo, DVD and DVD recording, plasma display, and organic electroluminescent display. Their strength in optical disc and display techn...

Mobile Car Stereo Player

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Using a mobile phone while driving is dangerous. It is also against the law. However, you can use your mobile phone as a powerful music player with the help of a stereo power amplifier. This does away with the need of a sophisticated in-dash car music system. Most mobile phones have a music player that offers a number of features including preset/manual sound equalisers. They have standard 3.5mm stereo sockets that allow music to be played through standard stereo headphones/sound amplifiers. Nokia 2700 classic is an example. Circuit diagram : Mobile Car Stereo Player Circuit Diagram A car audio amplifier with 3.5mm socket can be designed and simply connected to the mobile phone output via a shielded cable with suitable connectors/jacks (readymade 3.5mm male-to-male connector cable is a good alternative). Fig. 1 shows the circuit of car stereo player. It is built around popular single-chip audio power amplifier TDA1554Q (IC1). The TDA1554Q is an integrated class-B power amplifier i...

How to Installation A Car Stereo

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Car Stereo Installation Guide - Want to save some money? Ever wonder if you could do a car stereo installation yourself? Yes, you can do it yourself! Go ahead, spend that money on your hardware! Don’t spend it on labor. Besides, doing a car stereo installation yourself can be a very rewarding experience, not to mention you can learn a lot from it too. Nothing beats the feeling of seeing your “creation” in action, running smoothly and perfectly. But be very careful, you really won’t want to damage your expensive hardware. Well, most car audio hardware are no-brainers to install, you’d find that most of the time the parts have specially shaped sockets and slots etc. and would only fit where it’s supposed to be installed. Still, it’s best to proceed methodically. In a car stereo installation, you have to determine what kind of rig you’re going to put into your vehicle. If you’re a beginner, it’s best you do a car stereo installation if it’s just a simple system. You may want to leave ...

Car Temperature Gauge Circuit Diagram

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This is the simple Car Temperature Gauge Circuit Diagram. The Car Temperature Gauge is basically the same circuit as March's project with some minor changes to the input circuit. This circuit will display the water temperature to 1 degree resolution.

SW Converter for Digital AM Car Radio Circuit Diagram

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SW Converter for Digital AM Car Radio Circuit Diagram This circuit is purposely presented with many loose ends (not literally, of course) to stimulate experimenting with RF circuitry at a small outlay. Looking at the circuit diagram you may recognize a modified version of the SW Converter for AM Radios described elsewhere in this issue. The modifications were necessary to make the circuit compatible with a digital rather than analogue AM car radio. The main difference between digital AM radios and their all-analogue predecessors is that tuning is in 9 kHz (some-times 4.5 kHz steps) in compliance with the international frequency allocation for the band. Obviously, that particular step size, desirable as it may be on MW, is a stumbling block if you want to use a digital AM receiver in combination with a frequency step-up converter for SW, where chaos reigns and there is no fixed step size. The first attempt was to make the crystal oscillator variable by about 5 kHz each way.   SW Co...

Car power amplifier with TA82010AH

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IC TA8210AH is ic often used in amplifiers used in the room, It is suitable for power amplifiers car speakers taht fit and wear ell, surely this amplifier circuit works with a maximum also high quality. Supply voltage is not too high , only 12 VDC and is also good at high current. For high current amplifier power of the stronger . You can use the batteries that have current 10 A or higher . Power output up to 200W stereo with 8 Ohm impedance. Part List : R1 =1K R2 =50K trim R3 =1K R4 =50K trim R5 =680R R6 =680R R7 =150K R8 =2R2 R9 =2R2 R10=2R2 R11=2R2 C1 =1uF C2 =1uF C3 =47uF C4 =47uF C5 =100n/400V C6 =220uF C7 =220uF C8 =100n/400V C9 =100n/400V C10=100n/400V IC1=TA8210AH X2-3=in R X2-2=gnd X2-1=in L X1-1,X1-2=Out R X1-3,X1-4=Out L

Car Battery 12v Charger Circuit Diagram

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The usual chargers of battery automotive, are simple and cheap appliances that charge continuously the battery, with a rythm of few amperes, for the time where the appliance is ON. If the holder do not close in time the charger, the battery will overcharge and her electrolytic faculty are lost with evaporation or likely exists destruction of her elements. The charger of circuit exceeds these faults. It checks electronic the situation of charge of battery and it has circuit of control with retroaction, that forces the battery charge with biggest rythm until charge completely. When charge completely, it turns on one RED led (LD2). The charger has been drawn in order to charge batteries of 12V, ONLY. What should watch it from what it manufactures the circuit, they are the cables that connect the transformer with the circuit and in the continuity the battery, should they are big cross-section, so that heat when it passes from in them the current of charge and also they do not cause fall of...

Reliable Car Battery Tester

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This circuit uses the popular and easy to find LM3914 IC. This IC is very simple to drive, needs no voltage regulators (it has a built in voltage regulator) and can be powered from almost every source. This circuit is very easy to explain: When the test button is pressed, the Car battery voltage is feed into a high impedance voltage divider. His purpose is to divide 12V to 1,25V (or lower values to lower values). This solution is better than letting the internal voltage regulator set the 12V sample voltage to be feed into the internal voltage divider simply because it cannot regulate 12V when the voltage drops lower (linear regulators only step down). Simply wiring with no adjust, the regulator provides stable 1,25V which is fed into the precision internal resistor cascade to generate sample voltages for the internal comparators. Anyway the default setting let you to measure voltages between 8 and 12V but you can measure even from 0V to 12V setting the offset trimmer to 0 (but i think ...

Car amplifier circuit with IC BA532

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Minimum Voltage required for this circuit  6 volt and maximum voltage 18 volt . Its can use to amplifier on the electronic devices such us Radio , DVD , MP4 , MP5 , and etc. To amplify the signal sound to audio sound , If  you want to bring amplfier you can use the 6V  rechargeable battery is able to turn it. What use the rechargeable battery ? because with rechargeable battery when battery runs out , you can charge back. See Amplifier schematic with IC BA511 below : Click to view large Maximum output power 10 Watt with impedance 4 ohm. The circuit is mono amplifier. You can use the circuit to car amplifier because support to low power subwoofer speaker

Dual Pre Amplifier for Car Radio

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Circuit diagram: Dual Pre-Amplifier for Car Radio Datasheet for AN7310: Download

In Car Food And Beverage Warmer

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This is a very useful device for those who are frequently on the move. It will keep your tea, coffee or food warm while consuming little power.  The circuit is simple. The ubiquitous timer 555 is used as a free-running astable multivibrator. Diodes 1N4148 are connected in reverse direction to facilitate maximum variation of the duty cycles.   Power transistor T1 is Darlington type with 5A capacity and output of more than 60 watts. The chosen discrete components assure fixed frequency of 1 Hz (approximately) at pin 3 of timer IC1 (555). Resister R1 and potmeter VR1 (1-mega-ohm) allow adjustment of the duty cycle. The higher the duty cycle, the higher the output of the heater. You can connect up to five 10W heating elements in parallel, totaling 50 watts. The consumption of current will be significantly less if fewer coil elements are connected in parallel through toggle switches S2 through S4. Each of these switches has a 6A rating. Assemble the circuit on a general-purpose PCB. Mo...

20W Car Audio Amplifier with LM1875

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This is just addition 20W audio amplifier circuit , but this time based on the LM1875 audio amplifier IC from National Semiconductors. With a 25V bifold ability accumulation LM1875 can bear 20W of audio ability into a 4 ohm speaker. The LM1875 requires actual beneath external components and has actual low distortion. The IC is aswell arranged with a lot acceptable appearance like fast bulk rate, advanced accumulation voltage range, top achievement current, top achievement voltage swing, thermal aegis etc. The IC is accessible in TO-220 artificial ability amalgamation and is able-bodied acceptable for a array of applications like audio systems, servo amplifiers, home theatre systems etc. Notes. Assemble the circuit on a good quality PCB. Use +/-25V DC dual supply for powering the circuit. K1 can be 4 ohm, 20W speaker. A proper heat sink is necessary for the IC. F1 and F2 are 2A

Car Anti Theft Wireless Alarm

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This alarm circuit is an anti- theft wireless alarm can be used with any vehicle having 6- to 12-volt DC supply system. The mini VHF FM radio-controlled, FM transmitter is fitted in the vehicle at night when it is parked in the car porch or car park. The receiver unit of the wireless alarm uses an CXA1019, a single IC-based FM radio module, which is freely available in the market at reasonable rate, is kept inside. Receiver is tuned to the transmitter’s frequency. When the transmitter is on and the signals are being received by FM radio receiver, no hissing noise is available at the output of receiver. Thus transis- tor T2 (BC548) does not conduct. This results in the relay driver transistor T3 getting its forward base bias via 10k resistor R5 and the relay gets energised. The following is a schematic drawing: When an intruder tries to drive the car and takes it a few metres away from the car porch, the radio link betw- een the car (transmitter) and alarm (receiver) is broken. As a res...

Controlling a Mazda Car Using an iPhone

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This hack illustrates how a car can be controlled from anywhere in the world by tapping into the disgnostic systems and onboard webserver of the car. The objective is to keep the car “live” and connected to the Internet 24×7 even when not being driven. It should run continuously without flattening the car battery by critically selecting a low-power computer. Also, the user should be able to start the engine, pop the trunk, lock/unlock, and view all vehicle diagnostics from his iPhone. The chosen car was a Mazda RX-8 as shown in the image below. It was released in 2004 and consists of 6-speed manual transmission with a 1.3L 13B-MSP RENESIS engine. The computer used in this hack is an Alix-1 which draws very little power but is fast enough to run a full Linux distribution system. To fit into a recess in the base of the RX-8 boot, a mounting frame was assembled. It has room to mount the Alix-1, a USB hub, a charge circuit, and a deep-cycle 28A/h sealed lead acid battery. The SLA battery i...

Simple But Reliable Car Battery Tester

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This circuit uses the popular and easy to find LM3914 IC. This IC is very simple to drive, needs no voltage regulators (it has a built in voltage regulator) and can be powered from almost every source. This circuit is very easy to explain: When the test button is pressed, the Car battery voltage is feed into a high impedance voltage divider. His purpose is to divide 12V to 1,25V (or lower values to lower values). This solution is better than letting the internal voltage regulator set the 12V sample voltage to be feed into the internal voltage divider simply because it cannot regulate 12V when the voltage drops lower (linear regulators only step down). Simply wiring with no adjust, the regulator provides stable 1,25V which is fed into the precision internal resistor cascade to generate sample voltages for the internal comparators. Anyway the default setting let you to measure voltages between 8 and 12V but you can measure even from 0V to 12V setting the offset trimmer to 0 (but i think ...

Build a Car Voltage Regulator Circuit Using LM317

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The car cigarette lighter socket does not only light cigarettes, but can be utilized as an electrical channel for powering tools to work on the car such as laptops and other electronic devices. The following circuit diagram shows a way of powering a two-way mobile radio using the LM317T voltage regulator. The LM317 T is an adjustable 3-terminal positive voltage regulator that efficiently provides a load current of 1.5 Amps over an output range of 1.2 V and 37 V. With reference to the circuit, it can accept 14 volts without any hassle and the voltage can be controlled easily with the use of a potentiometer, a 3-terminal resister with sliding contact. The whole circuit will contain the following components:  Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Resistor 1 (R1): 270 ohms Resistor 2 (R2): 2K carbon potentiometer Capacitor 1 (C1): 100nF Capacitor 2 (C2): 1uF tantalum LM317T Voltage Regulator Heat Sink DC Power Jacks Green LED: Power Red LED: Over Voltage Zener Diode: over voltage LED switch The ...

Project of Car Head Lights Turn Off Circuit Diagram

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This circuit when setup in a car automatically turns off the head light after a preset time after the ignition switch is turned off.So you can walk out easily from the dark garage in the light of your car. Car Head Lights Turn Off Circuit Diagram Car Head Lights Turn Off  Circuit Diagram When the ignition switched on first the voltage from battery is fed to the relay through diode D1.When the ignition switch is turned off it produces a negative going pulse at the pin 2 that triggers the timer. The output of the IC goes high for the time set by R1  .This makes the transistor Q1 to conduct to energize the relay to drive the headlight.After the set time the light goes off.With the value of components used you can make a setting from 10 S to 60 S. Notes : Assemble the circuit on a good quality PCB or common board. Fit the potentiometer on somewhere on the dashboard so that  you can easily set the timing.

In Car Charger And Switcher Circuit For SLA Battery

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This circuit was devised to switch power to a Peltier cooler in a vehicle. Power to the load from the vehicle’s battery is switched by a SPDT relay while the ignition switch is turned on and from the SLA auxiliary battery when the ignition is off. The SLA battery is charged from the vehicle’s battery. When the engine is running, the voltage remains fairly constant, which greatly simplifies the charging circuit. If the SLA battery is fully charged, any further charging current from the vehicle battery is limited by a 3.3W 5W resistor (R1). If the SLA battery is deeply discharged, the voltage drop across this resistor will be enough to bias on PNP transistor Q1. This will turn on P-channel Mosfet Q2 and it will provide further charging current via R2, effectively becoming a 2-step charger. Since the paralleled resistors (R1 & R2) have a lower combined voltage drop, Q1 will receive lower base bias, which in turn will cause Mosfet Q2 to fully saturate. This positive feedback creates a ...