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    Automatic School Bell

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    Ganesh P Kumar
    This circuit allows an automatic school bell to ring every 45 minutes to signal the end of class periods, except after the fourth period when it rings after 30 minutes to signal the end of lunch. It uses ICs and transistors to generate timed pulses that control a relay connected to an electric bell. The peon can start the circuit by pressing S1 and stop it by pressing S2. S3 allows adjusting the start time if late. LEDs indicate when the circuit is active or finished.

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    Automatic School Bell

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    Ganesh P Kumar
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    This circuit allows an automatic school bell to ring every 45 minutes to signal the end of class periods, except after the fourth period when it rings after 30 minutes to signal the end of lunch. It uses ICs and transistors to generate timed pulses that control a relay connected to an electric bell. The peon can start the circuit by pressing S1 and stop it by pressing S2. S3 allows adjusting the start time if late. LEDs indicate when the circuit is active or finished.

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    This circuit allows an automatic school bell to ring every 45 minutes to signal the end of class periods, except after the fourth period when it rings after 30 minutes to signal the end of lunch. It uses ICs and transistors to generate timed pulses that control a relay connected to an electric bell. The peon can start the circuit by pressing S1 and stop it by pressing S2. S3 allows adjusting the start time if late. LEDs indicate when the circuit is active or finished.

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    Automatic School Bell

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    Ganesh P Kumar
    This circuit allows an automatic school bell to ring every 45 minutes to signal the end of class periods, except after the fourth period when it rings after 30 minutes to signal the end of lunch. It uses ICs and transistors to generate timed pulses that control a relay connected to an electric bell. The peon can start the circuit by pressing S1 and stop it by pressing S2. S3 allows adjusting the start time if late. LEDs indicate when the circuit is active or finished.

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    CIRCUIT IDEAS

    AUTOMATIC SCHOOL BELL S.C. DWI


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    RAJ KUMAR MONDAL (IC2 and IC3) and AND gate CD4081 (IC4). gate. When SCR1 is fired, it provides
    Timer IC1 is wired as an astable ground path to operate the circuit after

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    onsider that a school has a total of multivibrator, whose clock output pulses resetting both decade counters IC2 and
    eight periods with a lunch break are fed to IC2. IC2 increases the time IC3. At the same time, LED1 glows to in-
    after the fourth period. Each period periods of IC1 (4.5 and 3 minutes) by ten dicate that school bell is now active.
    is 45 minutes long, while the duration of times to provide a clock pulse to IC3 ev- When switch S2 is pressed momen-
    the lunch break is 30 minutes. ery 45 minutes or after 30 minutes, re- tarily, the anode of SCR1 is again
    To ring this automatic school bell to spectively. When the class periods are go- grounded and the circuit stops operating.
    start the first period, the peon needs to ing on, the outputs of IC3 switch on tran- In this condition, both LED1 and LED2
    momentarily press switch S1. Thereafter, sistors T1 and T2 via diodes D4 through don’t glow.
    the bell sounds every 45 minutes to indi- D12. When the eighth period is over, Q9
    cate the end of consecutive periods, ex- Resistors R4 and R5 connected in se- output of IC3 goes high. At this time, tran-
    cept immediately after the fourth period, ries to the emitter of npn transistor T2 sistors T1 and T2 don’t get any voltage

    when it sounds after 30 minutes to indi- decide the 4.5-minute time period of IC1. through the outputs of IC2. As a result, the
    cate that the lunch break is over. When The output of IC1 is further connected to astable multivibrator (IC1) stops working.
    the last period is over, LED2 glows to in- pin 14 of IC2 to provide a period with a The school bell sounds for around 8
    dicate that the bell circuit should now be duration of 45 minutes. Similarly, resis- seconds at the end of each period. One
    switched off manually. tors R2 and R3 connected in series to the can increase/decrease the ringing time of
    In case the peon has been late to start emitter of npn transistor T1 decide the 3- the bell by adding/removing diodes con-
    the school bell, the delay in minutes can minute time period of IC1, which is fur- nected in series across pins 6 and 7 of
    be adjusted by advancing the time using ther given to IC2 to provide the lunch- IC1.
    switch S3. Each pushing of switch S3 ad- break duration of 30 minutes. The terminals of the 230V AC
    vances the time by 4.5 minutes. If the Initially, the circuit does not ground electric bell are connected to the nor-
    school is closed early, the peon can turn to perform its operation when 12V power mally-open (N/O) contact of relay RL1.
    the bell circuit off by momentarily press- supply is given to the circuit. The circuit works off a 12V regulated
    ing switch S2. When switch S1 is pressed momen- power supply. However, a battery source
    The bell circuit contains timer IC tarily, a high enough voltage to fire sili- for back-up in case the power fails is also
    NE555 (IC1), two CD4017 decade counters con-controlled resistor SCR1 appears at its recommended.

    ELECTRONICS FOR YOU OCTOBER 2004

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