Build a Inexpensive Car Protection Unit Circuit Diagram

This is a simple Inexpensive car Protection Unit Circuit Diagram. This circuit to protect car stereo, etc from pilferage that costs less and requires no adjustments in the car but a good car cover. Place the circuit at your bedside and bring the two wires from the unit to the car (parked outside your home) and connect one wire-end to the cover and the other to the ground, with both wire-ends shorted by some weight such as a brick. So outwardly the mechanism is not visible.

Circuit of car protection unit with alarm

If someone tries to remove the cover, the alarm of the circuit starts sounding to alert you. The alarm can be switched off by resetting it using switch S1.

The car protection circuit comprises two timer ICs: one for the alarm circuit (see IC2 in Fig.1) and the other to indicate that the battery has taken over as the power source (see IC3 in Fig. 2). Normally, the protector operates off AC mains and the battery takes over only when mains fail. As the battery current is not high, the battery will last long.

As long as the two wires remain shorted, transistor T1 remains cut off. When shorting is removed, transistor T1 gets forward biased and its collector voltage drops to trigger IC2 and the piezobuzzer starts sounding.

 battery-takeover indicator

If mains fails, the battery-takeover indicator (shown in Fig. 2 and connected to points A, B and C in Fig. 1) immediately gets triggered at pin 2 of IC3. Its high output activates the battery-operation alarm for a couple of seconds. IC1 draws power from the battery to activate the protection unit.

After setting up the unit properly and shorting both the wires, press test switch S2. If there is no fault in the circuit, the alarm will sound. Now release test switch S2 and momentarily press reset switch S1 to switch off the alarm.

Sourced By:  EFY Author : M. Venkateswaran and T.E. Parthasarathy

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Over Voltage Protection Circuit

Here’s a design circuit that called over voltage protection circuit. This circuit can called as crowbar protection circuit. This circuit is used where we need protection against high voltage surge. The circuit has a few components, it is very easy to build and will protect your electric equipment again over voltages. The crowbar circuit must be mounted between power supply and the protected device. This is the figure of the circuit diagram;

The over voltage protection circuit is based on brute force: when the power supply voltage increases too much a thyristor short circuit the output. This mean that the overvoltage is quickly removed from equipment power terminals and F1 fuse will burn. The overvoltage (crowbar) circuit is now set. Replace the wire bridge with a fuse (5A). In repaos state the circuit take 1 mA.

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