LED circuits always play an important role in daily life applications in many ways.It attracts Electronic hobbyist interest since it was easy, simple to implement and cost effective too.Here we have published wide variety of LED circuits and you may view those in this LED circuits page.The above simple circuit was a Christmas lighting circuit using LEDs and Transistor.Lets move into the explanation part of working of this circuit.
WORKING:
In the above circuit the Two transistors was connected as a Astable multivibrator which produces a series of square wave pulses as output.Neither two transistors wont be in a stable state so that transistors will switch alternatively producing ON and OFF states thereby producing a square wave signal as output.Here is the complete working of the Astable multivibrator using Transistor.
The above circuit uses the simple logic of alternate switching of the two transistors to make an attractive pattern of lighting.That is when the Transistor T1 is conducting that is giving high output transistor T2 will be in OFF state.And Transistor T1 will be OFF if T2 was conducting.The output obtained from the astable multivibrator was fed into the Driver transistors T3 and T4 which was used in order to drive the number of LEDs connected to its respective terminals.
Thus the Green and Red LEDs will switch alternatively at equal time period producing a Christmas Lighting effect.The frequency of the output square wave produced from the Collector terminals pf the Transistor purely depends on Resistor and capacitor values R6-C2 for Transistor T1 and R8-C1 for Transistor T2.The driver transistors acts as a switch, thus switching the LEDs ON whenever high signal was obtained at the base of the Transistor T4 and T3.The brightness of the LED's can be adjusted by varying the R2 and R4 Resistor values.And the frequency of the switching can also be varied by changing the capacitor values C1 and C2.
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