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Testing this out it seems good from about 10 Volts through to 30 Volts . The resistor on the relay is only because its a 12 V relay and it gets hot so the extra resistor dissipates some heat . Take it out on 12 V olt systems
Because this is particularly relevant to renewable energy. It consumes very little current , works on a wide voltage spread and is necessary for all night sensor lights . I wondered if I could put it in projects . Perhaps thats possible .or perhaps move the whole thing out of general and into here.
Hum....dark detector. How about building a dark weapon. If you shine dark on the opposing army they could not see to shoot anyone. If the opposing army had your dark detector it could automatically turn on the lights so they could see. LOL.
A very useful sensor that keeps a relay on in the day with little power and turns off at night allowing NC relay contacts to make and power whatever.
Here is DIy Layout creator pics for both Dark Sensor and Light Sensor
They seem to be pretty efficient although not adjustable easily and they pull the relay in at night so I will have to investigate if I can alter them to come on in daylight and off at night .
The circuit in the above posts is by far superior on power use.
Hum....dark detector. How about building a dark weapon. If you shine dark on the opposing army they could not see to shoot anyone. If the opposing army had your dark detector it could automatically turn on the lights so they could see. LOL.
Anyway, normal dark detector with single or two transistor has linear output so evening time, we get relay chattering problem. This one have square wave output, like an output from a comparator IC. I like the feature.
OP 'b.james' have posted a link theree in post #1. 1st page of the link, there are two nice schematic with LTspice simulation by 'alec_t' and by 'MikeMl'. Schematic by MikeMl seems simple because of just two pieces of transistor, output on simulation seems totally square ON and OFF.
OP 'b.james' have posted a link theree in post #1. 1st page of the link, there are two nice schematic with LTspice simulation by 'alec_t' and by 'MikeMl'. Schematic by MikeMl seems simple because of just two pieces of transistor, output on simulation seems totally square ON and OFF.
Hi, Just now I made the dark detector (https://www.electro-tech-online.com/attachments/39a-gif.92641/) designed by MikeMi (12V version) which is hysterisis! I never thought that with just two transistor I will get such very nice non-linear output! It's working from 4V to 15V or max. For 4V I used a LED as a load and it's ON and OFF is so impressive! Before I used to think that only comparator can do it! Amazing!