AC Power Theory – Arduino maths
Instantaneous Voltage and current As the name suggests, AC Voltage and current continually alternate. If we draw a picture of the voltage and current waveform over time, it will look something like the image below. Depending on the type of load consuming power, the current waveform - blue in the diagram below - is what you get if you look at a typical laptop computer power supply. (There's an incandescent l ...
Read more ›DIY Digital AC Watt Meter
Have you ever been curious about the power consumption of an appliance? For example did you wonder how much it will cost you to leave your television in standby mode whole night? Or did you want to learn how much change your refrigerator settings will make on your electric bill? If your answer is yes, you can use a wattmeter to measure the power consumption of a device. In this project we are building one. ...
Read more ›Safe and simple AC PWM Dimmer for arduino / Raspberry pi
Dimmer With MOSFET This circuit shows that dimmers intended for use at mains voltage do not always have to contain a triac. Here, a MOSFET (BUZ41A, 500 V/4.5A) in a diode bridge is used to control the voltage across an incandescent bulb with pulse-width modulation (PWM). The power supply voltage for driving the gate is supplied by the voltage across the MOSFET. add on board: raspberry pi diy add-on board S ...
Read more ›AC Power Theory – Arduino maths
Instantaneous Voltage and current AC Voltage and current continually alternate, as the name suggests, if we draw a picture of the voltage and current waveform over time, it will look something like the image below (depending on what's using power - the current waveform - blue in the diagram below - is what you get if you look at a typical laptop power supply. There's an incandescent light bulb in there as w ...
Read more ›AC Arduino dimming circuit
THANKS TO CONCERNED VIEWERS, I HAVE LEARNED THAT THIS IS NOT SAFE AND SHOULD NOT BE REPLICATED. SO PLEASE DONT TRY THIS :) THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO COMMENTED, I LEARNED A LOT I am not an engineer, just an experimenter and hacker and prototyper etc, so, thanks to people who know a lot more than I do, I learned that this is not safe to use ------------------------------------ Have you ever wondered how you can ...
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