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Notes This ultrasonic device may be used to deter small mammal pests from encroaching upon your part of garden. The circuitry consists of a phase locked loop - CMOS 4047 - wired as a 23KHz oscillator. Oppositely phased voltage outputs are current amplified by complementary pairs of unbiased output transistors to drive 24V peak square-wave into a Motorola 3.25 inch Piezo Horn Tweeter.
The current draw is around
120mA, so an external power supply is recommended, but the small output
transistors do not need heatsinks because most of the energy is dissipated by
the transducer. The potentionmeter is used to preset the output frequency.
Do not put your ear near the tweeter when tuning – you might not hear the output, but you will feel it! |