Ill Pill type circuit parts explanation &other Q's

[SKYWLKR]

Ill Pill type circuit parts explanation &other Q\'s

I would like to know how each part plays in the action.

I'm sure the IC is just doing a timed switching function?

The Toroid ? Smoothes out the switching? That’s the little coil around the ring found in all power supplies?

Just a basic primer on the functioning is what I'm looking for.

I have always made circuits with simple diodes, resistors even a few transistors and repaired a few complex circuits by swapping bad parts, but that’s about it and it was all self taught by experimentation.

any other ways to get the basics of simple electronic circuits.

 

[HarryN]

Re: Ill Pill type circuit parts explanation &other Q\'s

My background is eng, but not electrical (could never catch on to it.) I found a paperback book at radio shack on "how to build power supplies". It will not make you an expert, but answers a lot of questions and will allow you to make a simple supply if you are interested. Once you have built one, then you realize how good some of the existing CPF versions really are. See Georges80 or sandwich shop, etc.

 

[SKYWLKR]

Re: Ill Pill type circuit parts explanation &other Q\'s

I just wanted to mention that I have a very strong understanding of electricity and most principle's and theories.

I teach an advanced computer repair class and have a basic (very) electronics lectures on
Ohms, watts, Amps etc. Ohms law, simple equations and such, series and parallel circuit types (both on the load and power sides)

So I need somthing a bit more indept on the building and desighn

 

[SKYWLKR]

Re: Ill Pill type circuit parts explanation &other Q\'s

The book sounds good I'll try and check it out.

I started making a Air/fuel guage for a car but got disinterested when I couldnt find the LCD display it needed ,but I was basicly just following written instructions. I still have the PCB I made some where. I need to dig it up and see if I can finish it....

 

[lambda]

Re: Ill Pill type circuit parts explanation &other Q\'s

Hmm, in my simple terms:

Power from the battery flows though the coil to ground when the switch is ON, building a magnetic field in the coil. When the switch opens, the magnetic field in the coil collapses generating a voltage in series with the battery; al la, boosted voltage

1) The inductor (coil) converts current into voltage.
2) A switch is used to charge up the field in the coil and dump it to V Out many thousand times a second

That's the basic theory. Add in a control circuit to increase/decrease switch duration/frequency, and the out put voltage can be regulated. Add a diode and capacitor to V Out, and you smooth out the pulses to get DC voltage/current.

Hope it helps.....

 

[Justintoxicated]

Re: Ill Pill type circuit parts explanation &other

It helped me!

 

[SKYWLKR]

Re: Ill Pill type circuit parts explanation &other

your explaination helps out a lot.

How are you regulating the rate of energy dump on the Ill Pill kit?

is the IC hard wired for a certain freq or is a resistor or some other function being used in the kit?

And I asume the Ill Pill Kit does not have the diode/capacitor pack?



so you only get (boosted)energy out of the coil after the circuit opens, correct?

so it is working some what like a capacitor and just building up the extra voltage then release it when wanted at command of the IC?