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FM transmitter (mod4)

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bananasiong

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Hi,
I have some question regarding this mod4 FM transmitter.
1. From the circuit, I can see that the coil is 10 turns, but I see the coil with measurement is only 9 turns.
2. If I use thinner magnet wire, the coil should be stretched to achieve the length right?
3. C13 is used to peak the output power so that it doesn't interfere with TV, must the tank of this be the same as the tuner tank?

Thanks.
 

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bananasiong said:
Hi,
I have some question regarding this mod4 FM transmitter.
1. From the circuit, I can see that the coil is 10 turns, but I see the coil with measurement is only 9 turns.
2. If I use thinner magnet wire, the coil should be stretched to achieve the length right?
3. C13 is used to peak the output power so that it doesn't interfere with TV, must the tank of this be the same as the tuner tank?

Thanks.

1 - The coils is 9 turns. The first and the last turn are only half-turns.

2 - For the same inductance, thinner the wire, less the spires.

3 - Did not understand this one.
 
I mean, from the mod4 circuit, I see that the tank circuit for the tuner is same as the tank used to peak its output power. Must they be the same? This is because I have made a few 6 turns coils (around 76nH by calculation).

What is less the spires??

Thanks!
 
bananasiong said:
I mean, from the mod4 circuit, I see that the tank circuit for the tuner is same as the tank used to peak its output power. Must they be the same? This is because I have made a few 6 turns coils (around 76nH by calculation).

What is less the spires??

Thanks!

Yes they need to be the same.

bananasiong said:
What is less the spires??

For example, you have an 10-spire (turns) coil, made of #18 AWG, with diameter of X and inductance of Y.

If you want to obtain the same Y inductance with the same X diameter, but of a #28 AWG, you would need only 9 ~ 8 spires (turns).
 
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The circuit has trimmer capacitors to adjust the frequency. A coil with 9 or 10 turns or a different size of wire will make very little difference, since the circuit layout's stray capacitance will probably change the tuned frequency much more anyway.

Why not make both coils the same and use the same trimmer capacitors like I did?

C13 is used to peak the output power. Its tuning is very broad and when I peaked it at 98MHz then the power at 88MHz and 108MHz was reduced only a little. Because it is a tuned circuit then the 2nd and higher harmonics are reduced a lot to avoid TV interference.
 
That's true and large thick bus bar has an inductance of about 50nH/m. Also using litz wire lowers the inductance slightly and multiplate bus bar can be as low as 10nH/m. Using thik or multistrand wire is good though because it a lower resistance and the latter a lower skin effect so the Q will be higher.
 
I used 1mm heavy wire for the coils so they are strong enough to remain in the same shape after a bump. I stood the coils up away from the circuit board so they had to be stong. Thin wire gets bent just by looking at it.
 
audioguru said:
I used 1mm heavy wire for the coils so they are strong enough to remain in the same shape after a bump. I stood the coils up away from the circuit board so they had to be stong. Thin wire gets bent just by looking at it.

That's true.
When I use thin wire to coil, I make it old way.
After I finish coiling, I cover the inductor with parafine to give it some strengh.
 
Okay, then I will follow audioguru's coil, so I have to change my rx coil, to make them to be the same.
Thanks.
 
Hi,
I couldn't find an electret mic here, I can get only a 2 leads mic (i think it is called capacitor mic)
look quite similar to this: **broken link removed**

the impedance of this kind of mic is much lower than electret mic?

Thanks
 
It is an electret mic and will work fine. Its ground wire terminal is connected to its metal case. I got mine from a broken cell phone.
 
audioguru said:
It is an electret mic and will work fine. Its ground wire terminal is connected to its metal case. I got mine from a broken cell phone.
How come the shop owner told me that they don't sell an electret mic and he gave me this kind of mic. But I don't see the polarity of it, I've tried using ohmeter to measure which terminal is connected to the metal case, but I couldn't. Because the ohmeter shows that both end to the metal case have resistance; either one of the resistance is the impedance of the microphone.
Just want to be sure, is this kind of mic is electret mic? No any other mic that look similar to this right?

Thanks.
 
bananasiong said:
How come the shop owner told me that they don't sell an electret mic and he gave me this kind of mic.
Probably because he doesn't know what he's talking about.


But I don't see the polarity of it,
Like audioguru said, the 0V line is connected to the metal case. Look at the back, the pad with a trace going to the metal case is the 0V line.
 
I got this pic of an electret mic from Google.
You can see that the rear solder pad is connected to the metal case.
 

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Yea, very similar. High quality electret mic :D
The solder of one of then pins is connected to the metal case if look clearer.

Thanks.
 
Hi,
Can I use 5 volts for the whole circuit? By moving the voltage regulator to the right end of the circuit. Will this reduce the transmitting range? I guess yes.

Why C4 is different for different country? Because of the FM frequency of each country is different? It is 88MHz to 108MHz here.
 
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Of course it will and it will reduce the stability. The whole point of the regulator is to keep the supply to the oscillator constant so the frequency doesn't changhe as the batteries run down. C4 changes the premphasis which is different in Europe than the US, I don't know about Canada though I presume it's similar to the US.
 
How if I'm not using battery but I convert AC to DC from the main socket? 5 volts supply to the whole circuit.
 
Try the circuit with only 5V. The range will be much less, so it won't overload a cheap FM radio as much.
 
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