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| ELECTRONIC | CIRCUITS | VOLUME 1 RUDOLF F. GRAF Contents CONONEBON= Acknowledgments Introduction Common Schematic Symbols Alarms Amateur Radio Amplifiers Analog-to-Digital Converters Attenuators Audio Mixers Audio Oscillators Audio Power Amplifiers Audio Signal Amplifiers Automotive Battery Chargers Battery Monitors Buffers Capacitance (Touch) Operated Circuits Carrier Current Circuits Comparators. Converters Crossover Networks Crystal Oscillators Current Measuring Circuits Current Sources and Sinks vi vil vili 14 51 54 61 71 93 110 119 125 129 139 147 158 171 174 200 204 BERSHRERPESSLS SS 52 De/de and de/ac Converters Decoders Delay Circuits Detectors Digital-to-Anatog Converters Dip Meters Displays Dividers Drivers Fiber Optic Circuits Field Strength Meters Filters Flashers and Blinkers Frequency Measuring Circuits Frequency Multipliers Frequency-to-Voltage Converters Fuzz Circuits Games Gas/Vapor Detectors Indicators Infrared Circuits Instrumentation Amplifiers Light Activated Circuits Light Controls Light Measuring Circuits Liquid Level Detectors Logic Circuits Measuring Circuits Metal Detectors Metronomes Miscellaneous Circuits Mixers and Multiplexers Modulation Monitors Modulators. Moisture and Rain Detectors Motor Controls Multivibrators Noise Generators Oscilloscope Circuits Phase Sequence and Phase Shift Circuits 475 Photography Related Circuits Power Measuring Circuits Power Supplies (Fixed) Power Supplies (Variable) Power Supply Protection Circuits Probes Pulse Generators Radiation Detectors Ramp Generators Receivers Resistance and Continuity Measuring Circuits RF Amplifiers RF Oscillators Remote Control Circuits Safety and Security Circuits Sample and Hold Circuits Schmitt Triggers Smoke and Flame Detectors Sound Effect Circuits Sound (Audio) Operated Circuits Square Wave Oscillators Stereo Balance Circuits ‘Switches Telephone Related Circuits Temperature Controls Temperature Sensors Timers Tone Control Circuits Transmitters Ultrasonic Circuits Video Amplifiers Voltage and Current Sources and Reference Circuits Voltage-Controlled Oscillators Voltage-to-Frequency Converters Voltmeters Waveform and Function Generators Zero Crossing Detectors Sources Index 624 637 659 678 682 686 693 700 705 717 727 730 749 Introduction This volume of timely and practical circuits highlights the creative work of many people, Featured here are many circuits that appeared only briefly in some of our finer period publications. Also included are other useful and unique circuits from more readily available sources. ‘The source for each circuit is given in the sources section at the back of the book, ‘The bold figure number that appears inside the box of each circuit is the key to the source. For example, the High Stability Voltage Reference circuit shown below is Fig, 93-10. If you turn-to the Sources section and look for Fig. 93-10 you will find that Precision Monolithics supplied this circuit from-p. 6-142 of their Full Line Catalog. THIGH STABILITY VOLTAGE REFERENCE Fig. 93-9: Reprinted with the permis: ‘sion of National Semiconductor Corp. Transistor Databook, 1982, p. 11-25. Fig. 93-10; Precision Monolithics In- ‘corporated, 1981 Full Line Catalog, 6-142, Fig, 99-11: Precision Monoithics In-