Posts tagged ‘analogue’

Philips PM 3265 Repair

A small journey into an oscilloscope input amplifier.
Philips PM 3265 Repair

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Pb Power bank

In preparation for being off-grid for a few days, I quickly built this ‘power bank’ around a 12 V 7 Ah lead gel battery. The circuit is simply pushed onto the battery’s 6.3 mm contacts and provides 3 USB ports. Charging circuitry is not included but the battery terminals are still accessible anyway.

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Quick and Dirty B–H Plots

While building solenoids, I needed a way to quickly judge the magnetic properties of some unknown steel. A simple analogue hall sensor IC works together with a controlled current source for the coil to drive a XY plotter (or oscilloscope in XY mode) and create simple B–H plots.

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IGBT Chopper

A useful thing to have for testing high voltage transformers is a simple chopper. This one switches a 600 V IGBT with an adjustable frequency between 50 Hz and 29 kHz (lower frequencies are possible with an external timing capacitor) and any duty cycle between 0 and 100%.

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