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Automatic School Bell

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Things which you can learn:

*Application of decade counter IC CD4017.
*Application of the AND gate IC CD4081 for logic conversion.
*Application of the NE555 timer IC in the astable mode of operation.
*Application of relays and SCRs for switching operations.

The Automatic School Bell finds use educational institutes, factories or organizations where accurate time keeping and bell timings are necessary. This circuit automatically sounds an alarm 8 times at intervals of 45 minutes each. After 4 intervals, A 30 minute lunch break or recess is also timed/belled for. No. of ICs used : 4

Time keeping has been a integral part of educational institutions and big factories. Build this kit which will automatically ring at the preset time to inform students and the employees to take the desired actions. This is a simple automation which you can bring in to your school by building it .



Working:
To begin time keeping and initiate the bell mechanism using the Automatic School Bell circuit, the peon needs to momentarily press switch S1 to mark the beginning of first period. Thereafter, the bell sounds every 45 minutes to indicate the end of consecutive periods, except immediately after the fourth period when it sounds after 30 minutes to indicate that the lunch break is over. When the last period is over, LED2 glows to indicate that the bell circuit should now be switched off manually. In case the peon has been late to start the school bell, the delay in minutes can be adjusted by advancing the time using switch S3. Each push of switch S3 advances the time by 4.5 minutes. If the school is closed early, the peon can turn the bell circuit off by momentarily pressing switch S2.
The bell circuit contains timer IC NE555 (IC1), two CD4017 decade counters (IC2 and IC3) and AND gate CD4081 (IC4). The NE555 (IC1) is wired as an astable multi-vibrator whose clock output pulses are fed to IC2. IC2 increases the time periods of IC1 (4.5 and 3 minutes) by ten times to provide a clock pulse to IC3 every 45 minutes or after 30 minutes, respectively. When the class periods are going on, the outputs of IC3 switch on transistors T1 and T2 via diodes D4 through D12.
Resistors R4 and R5 connected in series to the emitter of npn transistor T2 decide the 4.5-minute time period of IC1. The output of IC1 is further connected to pin 14 of IC2 to provide a period with duration of 45 minutes. Similarly, resistors R2 and R3 connected in series to the emitter of npn transistor T1 decide the 3-minute time period of IC1, which is further given to IC2 to provide the lunch-break duration of 30 minutes. Initially, the circuit does not ground to perform its operation when 12V power supply is given to the circuit. When switch S1 is pressed momentarily, a high enough voltage to fire silicon-controlled resistor SCR1 appears at its gate.
When SCR1 is fired, it provides ground path to operate the circuit after resetting both decade counters IC2 and IC3. At the same time, LED1 glows to indicate that school bell is now active. When switch S2 is pressed momentarily, the anode of SCR1 is again grounded and the circuit stops operating. In this condition, both LED1 and LED2 don’t glow. When the eighth period is over, Q9 output of IC3 goes high. At this time, transistors T1 and T2 don’t get any voltage through the outputs of IC2. As a result, the astable multivibrator (IC1) stops working. The school bell sounds for around 8 seconds at the end of each period. One can increase/decrease the ringing time of the bell by adding/removing diodes connected in series across pins 6 and 7 of IC1.
The terminals of the 230V AC electric bell are connected to the normally open (N/O) contact of relay RL1.



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