Led Flasher Final Project
Led Flasher Final Project
John Dave Guiller C. Tumambing, Zoer Matthew D. Virtucio, Rianna Rose D. Dela Cruz,
Renz Luciano
Email:[email protected]@[email protected],
Abstract I. Introduction
The most widely used of all optoelectronic LED Flasher is a simple circuit which will
devices is the simple LED (light emitting blink the LEDs in regular time period. This
diode), which emits a fairly narrow circuit can be used for decoration purpose or
bandwidth of visible (usually red, orange, can be used for a signaling purpose and
yellow, or green) or invisible (infrared) light many more. A LED flasher circuit is a
when its internal diode junction is stimulated circuit which flashes the LED- meaning
by a forward electric current. LEDs have turns it ON-OFF, ON-OFF, ON-OFF. The
typical power-to-light energy conversion 555timer chip is a very versatile IC, because
efficiencies some 10 to 100 times greater when connected correctly, it can it can
than a simple tungsten filament lamp and create pulses of current at specific time
have very fast response times (less than intervals decided by the resistor-capacitor
0.1µS, compared to 10s or 100s of (RC) network. When a 555 timer creates
milliseconds for a tungsten lamp), and are pulses in this way, the LED doesn't stay
thus widely used as visual indicators and as constantly on. It only turns on at a pulse and
simple ‘flashing light’ units. By simple, I then shuts off after the pulse has passed.
mean that these circuits only flash one or And it does this in a never-ending cycle,
two LEDs. This is opposed to the light which creates the flashes of light.To make
chaser circuits that can flash four or more. the 555 timer chip create pulses, it must be
Of course, the simplest LED flasher is placed in a stable mode. A stable mode
simply to use a flashing LED. The problem simply means that the 555 timer has no
with that approach is you have no control stable state. It switches constantly between
over the flash rate, but it does have its use high and low, or on and off. This is why this
for eye catching displays for selling stuff. mode is also called oscillator mode, because
The circuits below give you that control, it uses the 555 timer an oscillator, which
plus they can flash two LEDs alternately. creates square wave signals.
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II. Objectives
9V Battery
1
negative terminal to the negative rail of
the breadboard. Insert an LED on the
1 BREADBOARD breadboard. Which is Anode connected
to the positive rail of the breadboard and
its cathode connected to pin 3 of the IC
using 220 ohms resistor. Insert another
LED of the breadboard which is cathode
1.5 connected to the negative rail of the
meters Wires breadboard and anode connected to the
pin 3 of the IC using other 220 ohms
resistor. Finally, connected the battery
on mobile charger to the breadboard.
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