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Soldering Iron Tip Tinner /Cleaner Multicore (Westbury, NY) has a new soldering iron tip tinner /cleaner. The TTCI tinner /cleaner consists of a sm
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N ow from NRI comes the tarsi course of its kind ... anywhere! Learn to use, program, and service today's digital electronic music equipment as y
Communications Installin g Cellular Mobile Phones A guide to the cellular connection in vehicles By Art Salsberg ellular telephone technology has ma
rill February 1988 thus ensuring users that connection and use prices won't get out of line. When you buy a cellular phone, you must get a
2. The first step in planning a cellular telephone installa- tion is to find a suitable mounting site for the phone. The floor area between th
NEW! CB Radios & Scanners Communications Electronics '," the world's largest distributor of radio- scanners, introduces new models
Project Electronic Heat Control How electronics provides more efficient utilization of available energy resources and some controller circuit examples
A couple of degrees by itself would be of little consequence if it were not for the fact that objects, including ambient air, do not cool or hea
$0" POCKET SIZE SIZE:4 "Hx3.5 "Wx1 "D MADE IN USA '9995- S 15000 OPTOelectronics inc FREQUENCY COUNTERS TO1.3GHZ 8 LED DIGITS
gate. The AND gate delivers a pulse to the triac driving circuit only if all its signals are enabled: that the tem- perature is lower than setpoin
Fig. S. Adding phase control allows the conventional proportional controller to behave like a lamp dimmer, chopping the sine wave of the power line
unwinding. Identify the two starting wires with a dot of nail enamel or modeler's enamel paint. The dot cor- responds to the dots shown near
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Computers Computer-Aided Troubleshooting Using a personal computer to assist in and speed up troubleshooting electronic circuits By Robert G. Middleto
BASIC CAT Program for Common -Emitter mplifier Biasing Networks Printout of a Sample Run of BASIC CAT Program 5 LPRINT "CE AMPLIFIER BIAS N
Project The Digi -Ohm Add -On Module A low -cost add -on module that gives the Digital Measuring System display module a resistance -measuring capabil
that makes these devices good tem- perature sensors). To overcome vari- ations with changing temperatures, thermally attached germanium diode CRI a
U1 LM134 R9 10K LEDI (DMS J3-8) 56 0 LED2 (DMS J3-7) R11 56 R R1 100 R2 100 619 R3 100 R4 6.19K R5 100 R6 R7 61.9K 1K R8 1 S1 14 13 o o 12 oi 11 o 10
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ftadue Ihaek Parti PIaee PARTS FOR PROJECTS IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD RS -232 Teester and Transient Suppressor (1) (2) (1) RS -232 Inline Tester. Dual -co
Table 1. Ranges and Currents for Digi -Ohm Module RANGE DISPLAY CURRENT 1. 10052 F.S. 2 . 1 KS2 F. S. 3. 10KS2 F. S. 4. 100KS2 F. S. 5. 1M
Fig. 4. Actual -size etching- and -drilling guide (A) and wiring diagram (B) for Digi -Ohm pc board. board has been designed to accom- modate
Fig. 5. Top view of wired Digi -ohm module (A) and bottom view (B) showing mounting details for CR/ and UI. appropriate positions that corres- pond
Table 2. DIP Switch Positions to Use for Different Ranges SW1 Range / Position 99.9 ohms 999 ohms 9.99K ohms 99.9K ohms 999K ohms 1 ON OFF OFF OFF
Fig. 7. Assembly details for putting together front panel, LED boards, DMS module and Digi -Ohm module. Detail at upper -left shows how front -pane
tion. The front -panel, LED -board, DMS- module and Digi- Ohm -mod- ule "sandwich" arrangement is illus- trated in Fig. 9. If you have
Project The Telephone Minder This handy accessory tells you if someone tried to call you when you were not at home By Anthony J. Cari$ti Have you ever
R1 220K R2 2 2K * U Telephone line -o C3 O 33F Cl 47pF D1 C`1N5245 (15V) IC1 TCM1520AP 7 C2 T 10pF Semiconductors D1- 1N5245 or similar 15 -volt zen
r Since power for the circuit is de- rived from the telephone line, cur- rent drain is kept at an absolute mini- mum (about 0.15 milliamperes,
hookup wire by removing % inch of insulation from both ends. If possi- ble, use a wire with a different color of insulation from the other five f
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Prn iort A Vocal Warning Burglar /Car -Theft Alarm When tripped, this alarm vocalizes a warning message to intruders and thieves and then sounds a pie
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PARTS LIST Semiconductors D1- 1N4001 rectifier diode D2- 1N914A switching diode ICI,IC5- CD4093 CMOS quad 2 -input NAND gate IC2,1C3 -555 timer IC4 -7
C19 0.01µF R22< 50K: R20 R21 From 33K 33K IC 10 nn Pin 24 018 0.014íF o o 9Vac ARM C20 10µF DISARM 1A o C211_ 0 1µF RECT1 C22 T01µF C26 2200µF +5V
Listing 1. EPROM Program for First Message DECIMAL ADDRESS DECIMAL DATA HEX ADDRESS HEX DATA DECIMAL ADDRESS DECIMAL DATA HEX ADDRESS HEX DATA 128 4
y Listing 2. EPROM Program for Second Messag DECIMAL ADDRESS DECIMAL DATA HEXADECIMAL ADDRESS HEXADECIMAL DATA DECIMAL ADDRESS DECIMAL DATA HEXADECI
0 00 e v a0 I c-tN, I e e NE: p Fig. 3. Actual -size etching- and -drilling guide for logic, synthesizer and audio -amplifier sections of project
4 R19 -C12- R3 IC9 C16 XTAL C17 K -R20- a -621- C18 C20 N CC C15 D2 C19+ ll -R18- J JI C23 IC11 * -C22- -R23- -C25- ç2 SP KR GND- + 12V- CON C1 OUT 1C
Checkout & Final Assembly With none of the DIP ICs installed in their sockets in either circuit -board assembly, plug the project's line cor
Mathematical Variations of Ohm's Law By C.R. Ball Jr. German physicist Georg Si- mon Ohm discovered the relationship between volt- age, current
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detectors. The results of these experi- ments were quite successful. I also found that it is possible to transmit an informa- tion- carrying opti
ELECTRONICS NOTEBOOK ... Fig. 4. A simple LED -LED demonstration circuit. photodiode, I measured the external quantum efficiency of several GaAs
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NEI COMMUNICATIONS 111111 CAT Control of a Yaesu FRG -8800 with a Commodore C -64 Computer By Kjell W. Strom, SM6CPI The microcomputer brought many
Program Listing With Machine -Language Routines 10 REM 20 REM CAT CONTROL FOR YAESU FRG_. 8800 30 REM AND COMMODORE 64 40 REM BY 11ELL W. STROM.
COMMUNICATIONS Fig. 2. Interface circuit wired on perfor- ated board, using soldering or Wire Wrap hardware and a socket for the 7404. OFF command
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X1111 SOFTWARE FOCUS By Art Salsberg The mouse input device gathered popu- larity when Apple Computer's Macin- tosh debuted. IBM'ers
went smoothly, even though a variety of options are offered. Using a bevy of op- tional, low -cost software packages un- derscored how quickly
Mobile Phones (from page20) 6. Full- duplex, hands -free operation is possible with the aid of the clip -on microphone supplied with the phone. De- t
9. This ORA Electronics antenna simply screws onto its mount, as pictured. Many different types and styles of cellular antennas are available to
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