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- From: chrz@tellabs.com (Peter Chrzanowski)
- Subject: Re: Help Wanted: Sound detecting circuit
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.183720.12910@tellab5.tellabs.com>
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- Organization: Tellabs, Inc.
- References: <1993Jan20.104438.5447@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:37:20 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.104438.5447@ucc.su.OZ.AU>, andy@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Andrew Miehs) writes:
- > G'day,
- >
- > I'm not much in the know about electronics (but I'm learning) and so I'd
- > appreciate anybody's help in designing the following:
- >
- > I need a circuit that reacts to a certain high-frequency sound, in order to
- > activiate another circuit. Is that clear? In other words, when a microphone
- > picks up the sound wave from a nearby source, it turns some auxilary circuit
- > on and it stays on until the sound wave ceases.
- >
- > Please e-mail me with any suggestions or references.
-
- Look at the schematic (Howard Sams, etc.) of a TV made sometime before the
- late '70s. Old TVs used remote controls that used unmodulated ultrasonics:
- just provide enough energy at the right frequency and the function would
- be triggered.
-
- The circuits were pretty simple: a piezo microphone followed by a preamp
- followed by bandpass filters (L-C) followed by actuators/drivers for the
- solenoids or motors. Frequencies used were in the range 20-40kHz.
-
- These old remotes were very prone to false triggering, as there are many
- sources of ultrasonics: electomechanical-bell telephones, jangling keys,
- squeaky garage doors would often trigger these things.
-
- Because of the false triggering problem it makes much more sense to use
- some sort of modulation and encoding, as is done with modern IR remotes.
-
- >
- > Malcolm Ryan
- >
- > (care of Andrew Miehs - email andy@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU)
- >
- > --
- > +-------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
- > | Andrew Miehs | |
- > | Mail: andy@extro.ucc.su.oz.au | $$$ THIS SPACE FOR RENT $$$ |
- > | NB: Don't call me andy! | |
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