Recent content by Fuzigish

Thanks, didn't know.

With all the electric/hybrid cars becoming part of everyday life, I’ve been thinking about all the energy going to waste when ‘n vehicle has to come to a stop. Would it be possible to use alternators/generators to make use of that energy to make the vehicle come to a stop? As I understand, the...

Yes, a ‘geyser’ is a hot water heater. This whole exercise is not to build something that will necessarily be used. I just want to learn something out of this about logic-ICs, so buying a pre-built unit would be pretty useless.

Unfortunately it would be illegal to build something like that into a distribution board in South-Africa. Plus an average geyser is 4000W – 6000W, so I don’t think even a heavy-duty unit would work. This is an example of something similar: http://www.geyserwise.co.za/web/index.php"

I want to build a digital timer that will switch my geyser on and off at a preset time in order to save power. I don’t know much about PICs so I would rather try using only logic ICs. It has to have at least 3 preset ‘on-times’ and 3 ‘off-times’. Can anyone help me to get started?