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Blinking LED Step-by-Step - Astable Multivibrator - Beginner Learns Electronics Ep 13 - RC Circuits

Learn with Mxy 119 3 weeks ago
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Let's make some LED's blink! Supposedly the "hello world" of electronics, the astable multivibrator seems a bit too complicated for me to give it that name, but let's give it a shot! Schematic Credit: https://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/waveforms/astable.html 00:00 Starting Build 00:18 Adding Resistors 00:38 Adding Transistors 05:36 Adding Capacitors 08:44 Adding LED Outputs 09:20 First Try (FAIL) 11:10 Second Try (SUCCESS!) 11:36 PEW PEW PEW 12:17 How to read capacitor on oscilloscope 13:20 How to Slow Down LED Blinking 14:20 Trying to understand what's happening Transistors being used here: 2N3904 (NPN BJT) 1K / 1,000ohm resistors 10K / 10,000 ohm resistors Basic LED's (forward voltage drop ~1.8V) Power source: 3V (measured at 3.3V approx)

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