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26 Only this time, your digital word consists of the top 8 bits of a 24 -bit adder /accumulator. At a constant and high clock rate, a fixed phase in
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L It takes more than a water - filled moat to protect your castle HERB FRIEDMAN EARLY MAN PROTECTED HIS HOME against marauding beasts and the t
April 1989 Radio Electronics Vol. 60 No. 4 BUILD THIS 47 WIRELESS SECURITY SYSTEM Our easy -to -build system combines infrared and RF technologies. D
34 central monitoring facility. A comput- er at the central station tells the duty operator precisely what is wrong at the home: a fire, a burglary,
opened. Since the alarm bell, BZ1, is connected across RYI's solenoid coil, it sounds off. Because some towns and cities frown on alarms that so
36 ping hit anywhere in the neigh- borhood usually wiped out the control center. Fortunately, false- triggering is no longer a problem in the newer
tection, or medical supervision. Vir- tually every feature- including the function and operation of the loops as well as automatic battery testing
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44 FIG. 5-WIRE LACING WILL PROTECT a screened basement window or a crawl - space opening. FIG. 6-IF A WINDOW SCREEN must be removed and lacin
an older house with a thick door trim, or if the door has sagged, there might be no way to locate the switch and its magnet within their working separ
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J WIRELESS SECüRITY SYSTEM L -LF DAN BECKER Build a wireless security system that monitors an area casing an invisible infrared beam and beeps a hand
48 IR transmitter As shown in Fig. 2, current through IR -LEDI and IR -LED2 is switched on and off by Q2. Resistors R6 and R7 limit the peak curre
C10 180pF - 2IN\ LDR1 VT 835 i--- 02 2N4403 R1 1MEG TP3 C13 10µF R18 1MEG R3 100K C12 10µF ICI -b LM358 fl4 Cl 2.7K .1 w- K R5 1MEG 1M TPl C11 001 1
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PARTS LIST RF RECEIVER /ALERT BEEPER All resistors are 1/4 -watt, 5 %, un- less otherwise noted. R1, R11, R21- 10,000 ohms R2 -2200 ohms R3-47 oh
52 mitter, the IR receiver /RF transmitter, and the RF receiver /alert beeper, re- spectively. All resistors are installed vertically. Capacitor
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R6 R5 R4 C2 I R G R7 FLASHRATE R3 -i-- D1 ALPHA THETA S21K C4 C3 J F R7 03D R8 R9 RIO Ql r CI Q2 -11 O J1 O- 0 GOGGLES S1 ON OFF O- J2 O r 0 AC ADAPTO
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56 PARTS LIST All resistors are' /4 -watt, 5 %. R1- 10,000 potentiometer R2, R9 -4700 ohms R3 -1500 ohms R4, R7, R8- 10,000 ohms R5- 10,000 tr
feel that the flashrate somehow feels too fast and too slow. Somewhere in between those two extremes is a flash - rate that's just right for
rn U z o cc o w w Ó E ¢ 58 Radio- o 0 Electronics írC -Gil= THE MODEL WTT -20 IS ONLY THE SIZE OF A DIME, yet transmits both sides of a tele-
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60 PARTS LIST All resistors are 1/4-watt, 5% unless otherwise noted) R1, R7 -1000 ohms R2 -100 ohms R8, R9, R42- 10,000 ohms R3-R6, R10- R19- 10,000
+ 5V 4 16 11 15 Nvs 1 R41 250K 2 R42 10K VN 5V t TP7 O +5V RESET S2o +5V + 5V R6 10K TP6 1 101 9 1T 81 R5 10K Q2 2N3904 TP4 CLK A R10 R1 10K 10K TE
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14 71N 5-15V 161 12 1ouT - ~ fn0 64 CLK Cl 40178 CARRY OUT RESET CLK ENABLE 8 115 113 FIG. 3-A 4017B CONNECTED as a decade counter divider. 14 fIN
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66 2 6 CLK CLK ENABLE 15 RESET 14 LAMP TEST 3 { a 10 b 12 13 e g 9 11 6 CARRY OUT 5 RIPPLE RIPPLE BLANKING IN BLANKING OUT 18 a fi l_alb d LED S
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68 pins facilitate an internal carry look - ahead feature that is useful in fast counting applications. Synchronous up down counters Synchrono
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70 AUDIO UPDATE The importance of amplifier output current. MANY YEARS AGO, I WAS INVITED TO attend a record company's press conference,
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TRANSPUTER continued from page 77 Divide and conquer The idea is to divide and con- quer; let's illustrate with an anal- ogy. If, for example, y
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86 Parallel architectures In conventional processing, the system is fed a problem se- rially, one chunk at a time: do A, then B, and then C. An ad
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