my recent reads..

Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters; From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
Power Sources and Supplies: World Class Designs
Red Storm Rising
Locked On
Analog Circuits Cookbook
The Teeth Of The Tiger
Sharpe's Gold
Without Remorse
Practical Oscillator Handbook
Red Rabbit

Thursday, February 11, 2016

LittleArduinoProjects#183 Polarity Testing

A simple polarity test for uses a series of inverters. The input signal is pumped into two parallel inverter chains:
  • a single inverter
  • a series of two inverters
So, regardless of input polarity, one chain output will be high and the other low.

I used a venerable CD4069 for a quick test, although any inverter (matched to the voltage of the signal) will do. The result of the polarity test is displayed with a pair of LEDs reversed in parallel.

As always, all notes, schematics and code are in the Little Arduino Projects repo on GitHub.

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