30 Watts Audio amplifier Circuit Description. A 30 watt audio amplifier circuit using TDA2040 is shown here. TDA2040 is a Class AB monolithic integrated audio amplifier available in Pentawatt package. The IC has low harmonic distortion, low cross over distortion and has a built in circuitry for short circuit protection. In the circuit two TDA2040 […]
DC Step Up Voltage Converter Description. A simple DC to DC step up voltage converter using LM2700 is shown here. LM2700 is a step up switching converter that has a 3.6A, 80 M ohm internal switch. It can be operated at 600 kHz or 1.25MHz switching frequency. In the circuit LM2700 is wired in order
10 Watts MOSFET Amplifier Description. The diagram shown here is of a 10W MOSFET amplifier circuit that requires only a single supply. Single rail supply is seldom used in Class-B power amplifiers. Anyway, for low power applications like this it’s quite fine. Actually I got this circuit from an old cassette player that is still
Car Audio Amplifier Circuit Description. A simple low power car stereo amplifier circuit based on TDA 2003 is shown here. The circuit uses cheap, readily available components and it is very easy to construct. TDA2003 is an integrated car radio amplifier from ST Micro electronics that has a lot of good features like short circuit
A simple and easy to build 50 watt MOSFET audio amplifier circuit is shown below. The circuit uses easily available components and provides excellent sound quality . Description: The first stage of the amplifier is a differential amplifier based on transistors Q1 and Q2. Capacitor C8 is the input DC decoupler, R1 limits input
Voltage Converter Circuit – 6 to 12 volts One of our valuable readers asked us about any other application of the Audio amplifier IC TDA2003. Well, it can be used to build a Voltage converter circuit. Here’s an example of 6 to 12 volts converter using the same IC Description of the Voltage converter circuit:
Car Stereo Amplifier Circuit Given below is the circuit of a car stereo amplifier that can be used in cars or other vehicles. We have used TDA1553, which is a Class-B audio amplifier. Description : Here is the circuit of a car stereo amplifier based on TDA1553. TDA1553 is a monolithic Class-B audio amplifier which
12 volt DC Power Supply from USB port The circuit given below infact is a 5 volt to 12 volt converter. It uses the 5 Volts from USB port and converts it to 12 volts DC with the help of IC LT1618. Description : Using this circuit we can convert 5V DC from the computer
Audio Amplifier Circuit – 15 Watts The circuit below is of a  15 Watts Class B audio amplifier circuit designed using a dual Op-amp and transistors. Description : The circuit shown here is of a simple Class-B audio amplifier based on opamp TL082, transistors TIP41 and TIP42. LM833 is a dual opamp with high slew rate
Active Crossover Circuit Given below is an Active crossover circuit suitable for HiFi audio systems using LM833, the dual operational amplifier. Description: Crossover circuits are of two types, active and passive. Passive crossover circuit uses passive components only and they are very simple, but they waste a considerable amount of energy and also induce distortion.
Bridge Amplifier The circuit given below is a bridge audio amplifier circuit using ICÂ TDA4935. Description : TDA4935 is 2x15W high quality audio amplifier IC from Siemens. The IC can be used in stereo mode or bridge mode. In stereo mode it can deliver 15W per channel and in bridge mode it can deliver 30W
Voltage Converter Circuit. Circuit given below is a 3V to 5V Voltage converter using CMOS IC MAX660 and MAX667. Description : In the circuit shown below, a 3V to 5V converter is implemented using MAX660 and MAX667. MAX660 is a CMOS monolithic voltage converter and MAX667 is a programmable low dropout positive voltage regulator. Here
Voltage Doubler and Inverter Given below is the circuit diagram of a DC Voltage doubler and voltage inverter. Circuit uses a voltage converter IC MAX660. Description . A voltage doubler cum inverter circuit using the IC MAX660 IC is shown here. MAX660 is a CMOS monolithic voltage converter IC from Maxim Semiconductors. The monolithic charge
H Bridge Motor Control Given below is an H bridge motor control and  driver circuit using IC L298 Description : A bidirectional H bridge DC motor control circuit is shown here. The circuit is based on the IC L298 from ST Microelectronics. L298 is a dual full bridge driver that has a wide operating voltage range
Description. LM4880 is HiFi dual audio amplifier IC from National Semiconductors. This IC is specifically designed to produce high quality audio output with a minimum number of external components.LM4880 is capable of delivering 250mW per channel into an 8 ohm load. The IC has 0.1% THD and has a supply voltage range of 2.7 to
Description. The circuit shown below is of a DC motor driver circuit based on the IC TC4424 from Microchip. TC 4424 is a dual MOSFET driver that can be used in a variety of applications like SMPS, pulse transformer drivers, line drivers, motor drivers etc. The speed and of direction rotation of the motor depends
Description. The circuit given here is of a simple H bridge motor driver circuit using easily available components. H Bridge is a very effective method for driving motors and it finds a lot of applications in many electronic projects especially in robotics. The circuit shown here is a typical four transistor H Bridge. The diodes
Stereo sound level meter / Stereo VU meter Description. The circuit shown here is of a stereo sound level indicator/VU meter  using the IC TA7666P from Toshiba. The TA7666P consists of 2 inverting amplifiers, ten comparators and a reference voltage generator. The turn on levels for TA7666P are 5dB, 5dB, 3dB, 3dB and has a
Description. Here is the circuit diagram of a simple 3 channel audio splitter based on the IC NE5532. NE5532 is a dual internally compensated low noise opamp from Fairchild semiconductors. It has a high small signal and power bandwidth, making it well suitable for high quality audio applications. Here the IC1 is wired as a
Description. Many low pass filter circuits for subwoofer are given here and this is just another one. The circuit given here is based on the opamp TL062 from ST Micro electronics. TL062 is a dual high input impedance J-FET opamp which has very low power consumption and high slew rate. The opamp has excellent audio
Description. The circuit diagram shown here is of a 10V switching regulator based on the LM5007 from National Semiconductors. The LM5007 is an integrated step down switching regulator which has all necessary systems required for making a cost effective and reliable switching regulator circuit. The IC is available in MSOP-8, LLp-8 packages and has a
Description. This is just another 20W audio amplifier circuit , but this time based on the LM1875 audio amplifier IC from National Semiconductors. With a 25V dual power supply LM1875 can deliver 20W of audio power into a 4 ohm speaker. The LM1875 requires very less external components and has very low distortion. The IC
Description The audio amplifier shown here is based on the TDA7240 IC from ST Microelectronics. The TDA 7240 is an integrated audio amplifier IC that can deliver 20 watts of audio output power into a 4ohm load. The IC has minimum external parts count and is available in the 7 pin compact Heptawatt package. The
Description. Here is the circuit diagram of an excellent stereo preamplifier with tone control using the IC TDA1524 from Phillips. The IC requires very few external components, has very low noise and has a wide power supply voltage range. POTs R1 to R4 can be used for controlling the volume, balance, bass and treble respectively.
100Watt Inverter Circuit Inverter circuits are among the easiest circuits to build for newbies. Here is the circuit diagram of a simple 100-watt inverter using IC CD4047 and MOSFET IRF540. The circuit is simple low cost and can be even assembled on a veroboard. Circuit diagram Components Battery – 12V, 7Ah IC – CD4047 –
