Charging Batteries With Solar Power Using MPPT Controller
A solar charge controller prevents overcharging of batteries from solar panels. It functions by regulating the voltage and current coming from the solar panels and going to the batteries. To increase...
How To Design A Power Factor Correction (PFC) Circuit?
An important factor that decides the power quality in an electrical system is Power Factor (PF). Almost all types of mains powered electronic and electrical equipment utilize Power factor correction (PFC) schemes...
IR Remote Designs For Home Appliances!
With readily available and inexpensive Infrared emitters and detectors, Infrared (IR) remotes are quite common in almost all home appliances like televisions, CD/DVD players, air conditioners, microwaves, computers, set-top boxes and...
Controlling RGB LEDs To Get Million Colors In Your Pocket!
Many modern lighting applications need millions of colors. That is why we are finding RGB (Red Green Blue) LEDs all around us - in our phones, traffic lights, cars, advertising signs,...
Display Brightness Control Using Ambient Light Sensors
With more than ever electronic products available today and accessible by consumers, Ambient Light Sensors have become an indispensable component for a variety of design needs. Poor environmental lighting or changing...
Build Your Own Point-of-Sale (POS) Terminal!
Nowadays, electronic Point-of-Sale systems or EPoS have changed the way we perform transactions. EPoS systems are used worldwide for card-based payments at places like restaurants, stores and other retail outlets, enabling more...
Wireless Bluetooth Audio System For Outdoor Use
Want to take your tunes on-the-go? Bluetooth audio systems are great and give you the freedom to take music wherever you go. Instead of buying an expensive sound system, you could design your own...
How To Make A Wireless Sensor Node?
In many applications, harvesting of ambient energy sources becomes a necessity. Wireless sensor nodes are thus becoming increasingly widespread these days for monitoring and recording parameters like temperature, humidity and pressure at diverse...
How To Make A Solar Inverter?
Solar Inverters have now made a wide transition from simply inverting the DC currents of the solar panels to AC. Inverter manufacturers are constantly striving to innovate and cut down costs,...
Build An Efficient HID Lamp Driver Circuit
LEDs are one of today's most energy-efficient and rapidly advancing lighting technologies. However, High intensity discharge (HID) lamps are still an attractive lighting choice in recent times for their many advantages over incandescent...
