Distortion Booster

The following circuit is an distortion booster effect for your electric guitar. I don’t know whether this circuit is really works or not, you may try this circuit with your own risk. The circuit is very simple with required only ten electronic components : two transistors, two diodes, five resistors and two capacitors. Supply voltage… Read More »

NAND Gate Clock Generator

The following scheme is the clock generator circuit diagram which build based on NAND Gate logic IC. You may use IC 7400 or 4011 for this circuit. The 7400 is a Transistor-Transistor Logic (TTL) type, while 4011 is Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) type. IC 4011 is cheaper than 7400 but the 7400 is faster than 4011.… Read More »

6V Gel Cell Battery Charger

The following scheme diagram is the battery charger circuit for 6V Gel Cell battery type only. Components List: R1 = 22 ohm, 1W R2 = 270 ohm R3 = 220 ohm *R4 = 715 ohm, 1% *R5 = 3.57K, 1% *R6 = 1.40K, 1% *R7 = 1.47K, 1% C1 = 0.1uF, ceramic C2 = 0.1uF,… Read More »

NiCAD Battery Charger with Current and Voltage Limiting

The following diagram is the schematic diagram of Ni-CAD battery charger circuit which featured with current and voltage limiting to keep the battery lifetime. The lamp L1 will be light brightly and the LED will be out when the battery is low and battery charging in progress, but the LED is very bright and the… Read More »

ACTOR : Active Tone Control

The following diagram is the schematic diagram of Active Tone Control circuit, or we often call this circuit as “ACTOR”. The circuit is quite simple, easy build and inexpensive, you can build this circuit with minimum / low cost. Active Tone Control or ACTOR is an active electronic audio circuit that serves to increase the… Read More »

Dynamic Mic Compressor

The circuit below is a Dynamic Mic Compressor circuit which is simple, easy to built, inexpensive but the results are quite satisfactory. Audio output sounded outstanding. The principle of this circuit is very simple, the first transistor is used as microphone pre-amplifier. Then a second transistor used as a buffer. And the third transistor is… Read More »