Current Limiting Coil Driver circuit Diagram

This is the Practical Current Limiting Coil Driver circuit Diagram. The p-channel devices are switched off by current sensors when the coil current reaches 10 A. The operation is similar to that of a switching-type power supply. The Schottky diodes and resistors are for spike protection.

Current Limiting Coil Driver circuit Diagram

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3 Input Video MUX Cable Driver Using LT1399

The circuit diagram shows a low-cost 3-input video MUX cable driver. In this circuit, the amplifier is loaded by the sum of RF and RG of each disabled amplifier. Resistor values have been chosen to keep the total back termination at 75 Ω while maintaining a gain of 1 at the 75-Ω load. The switching time between any two channels is approximately 32 ns when both enable pins are driven. When designing a circuit board for this cable driver, care should be taken to minimize trace lengths at the inverting input. The ground plane should also be pulled away from RF and RG on both sides of the board to minimize stray capacitance. Current consumption of the cable driver is a modest 8mA.

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Dual Relay Driver Board Circuit Schematic

A simple and convenient way to interface 2 relays for switching application in your project. This relay driver boosts the input impedance with a regular BC547 NPN transistor (or equivalent). Very common driver. It can drive a variety of relays, including a reed-relay.

Transistor Q1and Q2 are a simple common-emitter amplifier that increases the effective sensitivity of the 12 volt relay coil about a 100 times, or in other words, the current gain for this circuit is 100. Using this setup reduces the relay sensitivity to a few volts. R3 and R4 restricts the input current to Q1 and Q2 to a safe limit. Diodes D3 and D4 are EMF dampers and filter off any sparking when the relay
de-energizes.

Picture of the project:

 Front View Of Dual Channel Relay Board Driver

Circuit diagram:

Parts:

R1-R2 = 1K
R3-R4 = 5.6K
C1-C2 = 100nF-63V
D1-D2 = Red LED
D3-D4 = 1N4001
L1-L2 = 12V Relay
Q1-Q2 = BC547

Specification:

• Input - 12 VDC @ 84 mA
• Output - two SPDT relay
• Relay specification - 5 A @ 230 VAC
• Trigger level-2~5VDC
• Berg pins for connecting power and trigger voltage
• LED on each channel indicates relay status

Source : www.extremecircuits.net

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