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IR REMOTE SWITCH
K.S. SANKAR

magine the convenience of selecting

TV channels using your remote and
then pointing the same remote to your
switchboard to switch on/off the fan or
the tubelight. Here is a simple circuit to
remotely switch on/off any electrical device through a relay using the normal TV/
VCR/VCP/VCD remote control unit. It

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works up to a distance of about 10 metres.

The circuit is built around a 3-pin IR
IC receiver (Siemens SFH-506-38 or equivalent) that can detect 38kHz burst frequency
generated by a TV remote. (This IR receiver module has been covered earlier in
many projects published in EFY.)
The output pin of IR sensor goes low

when it detects IR light, triggering the

monostable (1-second) built around timer
NE555. The output of the mono toggles
the J-K flip flop, whose Q output drives
the relay through SL100 npn transistor (T1).
LED2, LED3, and LED4 are used to
display the status of each output stage during circuit operation. Back-EMF diode D5
is used for protection. Transistor T1 is configured as an open-collector output device
to drive the relay rated at 12V DC.
The circuit draws the power from voltage regulator 7805. Capacitor C5 is soldered close to the IR sensors pins to avoid
noise and false
triggering. Capacitor C3 and
resistor R3 also
avoid false triggering
of
monostable
NE555.
The
monostable acts
as a 1-second
hysterisis unit to
restrict the flipflop from getting
retriggered
within one second. To activate
any other 12V
logic device, use
the output across
the relay coil terminals.

MARCH 2002

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