I am trying recreate a circuit I found online. The circuit is used to measure the electrical connectivity in a liquid. The circuit below also requires a probe and volt meter/pic to read the output. I have created a list of parts and just want to make sure I got them correct. The post I found online was from back in 2006 and my attempts to reach the person who created have been unsuccessful.
In addition to the parts below, What is D3? I believe it is a bridge rectifier. Can anyone suggest a part number or specs I should look for?
Finally from what I can tell the circuit appears to be fed by +12VDC and -12VDC. I plan to get this from a +12VDC circuit and a NJU7662 power inverter.
Yuck, I had to play around with that circuit in the Gimp to make it readable. I don't know why they didn't use a plain background, surely the CAD program has an option to turn the grid off.
Yes, D3 is just a bridge rectifier.
The power inverter IC might not be powerfull enough.
Are you powering this from a 12V mains power adaptor?
If so you could use an AC adaptor and a voltage doubler circuit to get +/- 12V.
On the very dotty circuit attached by cyrusthevirus, and the tidy version posted by Hero, there is a connection missing from pin9 of U1 to the bridge.
On the circuit in the original article, that connection is there.
There may be other oddities in the circuit as copied by cyrus, I did not notice any others, it is just that this one screamed out at me!
On the very dotty circuit attached by cyrusthevirus, and the tidy version posted by Hero, there is a connection missing from pin9 of U1 to the bridge.
On the circuit in the original article, that connection is there.
You need an AC adaptor (i.e. 12VAC, not 12VDC) in order for this to work.
It's only suitable for low currents, up to 50mA or so but that's enough for your circuit.
You might not need the regulators so you can omit them if they're not required. You can also save space by using the LM78L12 and 79L12 which are in TO-92 packages. Note that the pinout for the negative regulator is different to the positive, see the datasheets for more information.
It is obvious that the VACout signal is the attenuated sine-wave from the oscillator amplified by U1b.
The resistance between the probes controls the gain of U1b.