Circuit electrinic

Here is a tester for on-board testing of IR receiver modules used for remote control of TV sets and VCD players. The circuit is very simple and can also function as a remote tester. IR receiver modules are miniature IR receivers sensitive to pulsed infrared rays. These have a pin photo-diode and a preamplifier stage encased in an epoxy case that acts as the IR filter.

Infrared (IR) Receiver Module Tester Circuit Diagram

Internally, the module has an AGC, band-pass filter, demodulator and control circuit. Its output has a bipolar transistor with 80- to 100-kilo-ohm resistor in the collector. Normally, the collector output of the transistor is high and gives 5V at 5 mA. The output of the module is active-low and hence it sinks current when the pin photo-diode senses the presence of pulsed IR rays.


The IR receiver module is designed with high immunity against ambient light and is capable of continuous data transmission at up to 2400 bps or higher. The band-pass filter and AGC suppress unexpected noise to avoid false triggering. The module responds to the IR beam only if its carrier frequency is close to the centre frequency of the band pass.

IR Receiver Module Pinout

Working of the circuit is simple. Three mini crocodile clips are used to connect the circuit to the positive, negative and output of the module. If the module is properly working, its output remains 5 volts. This makes the cathode of LED1 high. So LED1 doesn’t glow and the buzzer remains silent. When you focus the remote handset onto the IR receiver and press any switch, the output of the IR receiver sinks current.

So LED1 starts flashing and the buzzer beeps in sync with the pulsations of the IR beam. On the other hand, if your IR receiver module is faulty, the output of the module does not sink current when you focus the remote handset towards the module and press any switch. So neither LED1 flashes, nor the buzzer beeps in sync with the pulsations of the IR beam.

Power to the circuit is obtained from a 9V PP3 battery and regulated to 5 volts by zener diode ZD1. Most of the IR receiver modules work only between 3 and 6 volts. Storage capacitor C1 releases current to make LED1 flash brightly. (EFY Note. We had used a TSOP1738 IR receiver module while testing. Fig. 2 shows the pin configuration of TSOP1738.)

Assemble the circuit on a small piece of matrix board and enclose in a small cabinet. Use a high-brightness red LED and a small buzzer for audio-visual indication. Connect points A, B and C to the crocodile clips using red, black and blue wires to connect to the pins of the module easily. For easy identification of pins, the pin assignment (front view) of some common IR receiver modules is shown in the table.

Turn ON or OFF electrical devices using remote control is not a new idea and you can find so many different devices doing that very well. For realization of this type of device, you must make a receiver, a transmitter and understand their way of communication. Here you will have a chance to make that device, but you will need to make only the receiver, because your transmitter will be the remote controller of your tv, or video …This is one simple example of this kind of device, and I will call it IR On-Off or IR-switch.

How it works:

Choose one key on your remote controller (from tv, video or similar), memorized it following a simple procedure and with that key you will able to turn ON or OFF any electrical device you wish. So, with every short press of that key, you change the state of relay in receiver (Ir-switch). Memorizing remote controller key is simple and you can do it following this procedure: press key on Ir-switch and led-diode will turn ON. Now you can release key on Ir-switch, and press key on your remote controller. If you do that, led-diode will blink, and your memorizing process is finished.

Instructions:

To make this device will be no problem even for beginners in electronic, because it is a simple device and uses only a few components. On schematic you can see that you need microcontroller PIC12F629, ir-receiver TSOP1738 (it can be any type of receiver TSOP or SFH) and for relay you can use any type of relay with 12V coil.

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Click here to download source code for PIC12F629-675 . To extract the archive use this password extremecircuits.net