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- From: byron@cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff)
- Subject: Re: Help Wanted: Sound detecting circuit
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.125806.4785@cc.gatech.edu>
- Sender: news@cc.gatech.edu
- Reply-To: byron@cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff)
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
- References: <1993Jan20.104438.5447@ucc.su.OZ.AU> <1993Jan25.183720.12910@tellab5.tellabs.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 12:58:06 GMT
- Lines: 47
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- In article <1993Jan25.183720.12910@tellab5.tellabs.com> chrz@tellabs.com (Peter Chrzanowski) writes:
- >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.
- >
-
- I think we've moved a bit further since then. How's about using a 567 tone
- decoder. It's an 8 pin DIP that uses an RC circuit to set the center
- frequency and has a sharp bandpass filter around that freqency. It'll
- even give you the modulated output without the carrier frequency if you
- wanted to do some futher processing. Cost about $1 apiece at most electronic
- supply places.
-
- BAJ
-
- >>
- >> 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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