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Thermocouple to RS-232

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008


In this circuit, the LT1025 cold-junction compensator provides the signal conditioning. The compensator’s voltage varies with the temperature of the reference junction in such a way that when summed with the thermocouple voltage, the combination behaves as if the reference junction were maintained at 0°C. (You should place the compensator as close as possible to [...]

RS-232C digital thermometer

Friday, June 20th, 2008


Accuracy depends only on the tolerance of the nominal 10-to-1 R1/R2 ratio. Temperature-to-digital conversion involves a voltage-to-frequency-ratio scheme: Difference amplifier IC3 compares the square wave from Q1’s emitter to the signal developed across R3 by switches IC2A and IC2B, acting concurrently with R4, R5, and the 2.500V reference IC4 develops. IC3 amplifies the difference with [...]

Logic Probe by 74LS47

Thursday, June 19th, 2008


This circuit is a Logic Probe. It indicates the logic state of the node of any TTL logic circuit. To do that, we have to supply the probe with the same power of the circuit that we want to analyse: same Vcc and same GND. To check the logic level, we must connect the “Test” [...]