Monthly Archives: September 2011

Home Made Soda Pop

It’s the half way point in my year of one-per-week projects so I thought it would be a nice change to do something a bit different and refreshing! Home made soda pop! Making your own soda pop is a pretty … Continue reading

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Three Transistor Voltage Detector…

Ahh yet another transistor project!! Well, this will be the last one for a while I promise. 🙂 This is an amplifier of sorts. In fact a viewer of the video posted below with the screen name MonkeyFCoconut summed it … Continue reading

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JFET Audio Preamp with Piezo Guitar Pickup

I’ve been on a transistor theme here lately and there’s one more I’d like to cover, the JFET. JFET stands for Junction Field Effect Transistor. These transistors are well suited for high impedance inputs and since a Piezo electric device … Continue reading

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Simple Transistor Tester

This is basically a high gain amplifier with feedback that causes the LED to light and flash at a rate determined by the 10u and 330k resistor. Remove one of the transistors and insert the unknown transistor. When the transistors … Continue reading

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