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12V Flourescent Lamp Inverter

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Drive a standard 36/40W fluoro tube to fll brightness from a 12V DC. Ideal for camping, a trouble light or even emergency home lighting. For these reasons, fluorescent lighting is the natural choice in commercial and retail buildings, workshops and factories. For battery-powered lighting, fluorescent lights are also the first choice because of their high efficiency. The main drawback with running fluorescent lights from battery power is that an inverter is required to drive the tubes. Inverter efficiency then becomes the major issue. There are many commercial 12V-operated fluorescent lamps available which use 15W and 20W tubes. However, it is rare to see one which drives them to full brilliance. For example, a typical commercial dual 20W fluorescent lamp operating from 12V draws 980mA or 11.8W. Ignoring losses in the fluorescent tube driver itself, it means that each tube is only supplied with 5.9W of power which is considerably less than their 20W rating. So while the lamps do use 20W...

Project of 12 VDC Fluorescent Lamp Driver Circuit

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This is a simple Project of 12 VDC Fluorescent Lamp Driver Circuit Diagram . A number of people have been unable to find the transformer needed for the Black Light project, so I looked around to see if I could find a fluorescent lamp driver that does not require any special components. I finally found one in Electronics Now. Here it is. It uses a normal 120 to 6V step down transformer in reverse to step 12V to about 350V to drive a lamp without the need to warm the filaments. 12 VDC Fluorescent Lamp Driver Circuit Digram Notes Q1 must be installed on a heat sink. A 240V to 10V transformer will work better then the one in the parts list.  The problem is that they are hard to find.This circuit can give a nasty (but not too dangerous) shock. Be careful around the output leads. Parts Part Total Qty. Description Substitutions C1 1 100uf 25V Electrolytic Capacitor C2,C3 2 0.01uf 25V Ceramic Disc Capacitor C4 1 0.01uf 1KV Ceramic Disc Capacitor R1 1 1K 1/4W Resistor R2 1 2.7K 1/4W Resist...

Build a Varying Brightness AC Lamp Circuit

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Varying Brightness AC Lamp Circuit , an SCR is used to slowly vary the intensity of a 120 volt light bulb by controlling the time that the AC line voltage is applied to the lamp during each half cycle. Varying Brightness AC Lamp Circuit Diagram Caution: The circuit is directly connected to the AC power line and should be placed inside an enclosure that will prevent direct contact with any of the components. To avoid electrical shock, do not touch any part of the circuit while it is connected to the AC power line. A 2K, 10 watt power resistor is used to drop the line voltage down to 9 volts DC. This resistor will dissipate about 7 watts and needs some ventilation. Operation: A couple NPN transistors are used to detect the beginning of each half cycle and trigger a delay timer which in turn triggers the SCR at the end of the delay time. The delay time is established by a current source which is controlled by a 4017 decade counter. The first count (pin 3) sets the current to a minimum whi...

Build a Fog Lamp Switch Circuit Diagram

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This is a simple Fog Lamp Switch Circuit Diagram. This circuit recommended to have a rear fog light on a trailer with the additional requirement that, when the trailer is coupled to the car, the rear fog light of the towing car has to be off. The circuit shown here is eminently suitable for this application. The circuit is placed near the rear fog light of the car. The 12-V connection to the lamp has to be interrupted and is instead connected to relay contacts 30 and 87A (K1, K3). When the rear fog light is turned on it will continue to operate normally.  Fog Lamp Switch Circuit Diagram If a trailer with fog light is now connected to the trailer connector (7- or 13-way, K2), a current will flow through L1. L1 is a coil with about 8 turns, wound around reed contact S1. S1 will close because of the current through L1, which in turn energizes relay Re1 and the rear fog light of the car is switched off. The fog light of the trailer is on, obviously. The size of L1 depends on reed conta...

Power on Reminder with LED Lamp Circuit Diagram

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D. Mohan Kumar is famous name in the circuits world. There are d's Power-on Reminder with LED Lamp Circuit Diagram creation. Many a times equipment at workstations remain switched on unnoticed. In this situation, these may get damaged due to overheating. Here is an add-on device for the workbench power supply that reminds you of the power-on status of the connected devices every hour or so by sounding a buzzer for around 20 seconds. It also has a white LED that provides good enough light to locate objects when mains fails. Power-on Reminder with LED Lamp Circuit Diagram    Fig. 1 shows the circuit of power-on reminder with LED lamp. Here, IC NE555  (IC1) is wired as an astable multivibrator, whose time period is set to around six minutes using resistors R1 and R2, preset VR1 and capacitor C1 for sounding the buzzer every hour. The output of IC1 is fed to the clock input of IC CD4017 (IC2). Capacitor C3 and resistor R3 provide power-on-reset pulse to IC2.When power to the ...

Small LED lamp circuit

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circuit diagram: A total of four 1.2V cells are used here. Resistor R2 limits the charging current. For charging Li-ion battery (used in mobile phones), shift switches S1 and S2 to ‘on’ position and use connector ‘C.’ Regulator IC 7805 (IC2) provides 5V for charging the Li-ion battery. Using this circuit, you can charge a 3.6V Li-ion cell very easily. Resistor R3 limits the charging current. Fig. 2 shows the circuit for a small LED-based lamp. It is simple and low-cost. Six 10mm white LEDs (LED2 through LED7) are used here. Just connect them in parallel and drive directly by a 3.6V DC source. You can use either pencil-type Ni-Cd batteries or rechargeable batteries as the power source. Assemble the circuit on a general-purpose PCB and enclose in a small box. Mount RCA socket on the front panel of the box and wire RCA plug with cable for connecting the battery and LED-based lamp to the charger.

Fluorescent lamp lights starter

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Why fluorescent lamp light blinking before long? Because Fluorescent light removes electrons and hit the wall of a glass tube coated with phosphors that emit light plastic. To throw a flow of electrons in the metal out in need of very high voltage electricity. Because not enough to voltage that we use 220 ​​volt, fluorescent lamp starter, grafted on to stop a while to produce electricity in a high electric voltage. Fluorescent light starter component's High-voltage electric is cutt off from current to flow. Therefore, when Fluorescent Lamps, electrical connecting repeatedly cut, so look at our eyes blink, while starter is generally light but, when the lights go out starter that is lit exactly goes on.