
A &
A Engineering
2521 W.
LaPalma Unit
K
Anaheim, CA
92801
(714)
952
-2114
BLH Electronics
75 Shawmut
Road
Canton,
MA 02021
(617) 821
-2000
Colorease
100 E. Ohio Street
Chicago,
IL 80611
(312)
440 -1266
Electronic
News
7 East
12th
Street
New
York, NY
10003
(215) 630 -0951
Gould
/AMI
1200 Buckskin
Road
Pocatello,
ID 83201
(800)
468-5310
ID Systems
174 Concord
Street
Peterborough,
NH 03458
(603)
924
-9631
NAMES AND NUMBERS
Lazer
Products
12741 E. Caley
Avenue
no.
130
Englewood,
CO
80111
(303)
792-5277
Maxim
120 San Gabriel
Drive
Sunnyvale,
CA 94086
(408)
737 -7600
Mitel
2321
Morena
Blvd, Suite
M
San
Diego, CA
92110
(619)
276 -3421
Nuts &
Volts
PO
Box
1111
Placentia,
CA 92670
(714) 632
-7721
Old Colony
Sound
Lab
PO Box
243
Peterborough,
NH 03458
(603) 924
-6371
Rohm &
Haas
Box
219
Bristol,
PA
19007
(215)
788 -5501
Sensors
174 Concord
Street
Peterborough,
NH 03458
(603)
924-9631
Sharp
Sharp
Plaza
Mahwah,
NJ 07430
(201) 529
-8757
Stanford
Telecomm
2421
Mission
College
Blvd
Santa
Clara,
CA
95054
(408) 748 -1010
Tek Direct/Tektronix
PO
Box 500
M/S 02
-050
Beaverton,
OR 97075
(800)
426 -2200
Texas
Instruments
Box 655303
M/S 8206
Dallas,
TX 75265
(214)
995 -3821
Whole
Earth
Access
2990
Seventh
Street
Berkeley,
CA
94710
(800)
845 -2000
News. You'll
find lots of
free
-sam-
ple,
offers
in any of
those, along
with
unique
sources
of supply.
As
usual,
you get a complete
list from
Uhlrichts
Periodicals
Dictionary at
your
local
library.
(11) Acquire an enormous
junk
box. Or better
yet, a junk
room or
a junk
building or
two.
Fill them
with broken
TV sets, dead
VCR's,
or
whatever else
trips your
trigger.
A
dozen cubic
yards or
so should
do
for a bare -bones
start.
(12) Hamfests,
particularly
the
big
regional ones,
have outstand-
ing
parts
bargains
and
zero
mini-
mum orders.
Ask for
full
details
at
your
local ham club,
or, once
again,
do see
Nuts and
Volts
for a
listing.
(13) Combine your
order
with
that of
another
hardware
hacker.
Or
start your
own
"buying club."
Low
-power regulators
The
folks at
Maxim have
added
yet
two more
low -power
regulator
chips to their
line. The
MAX644
steps
up a single
alkaline
cell
as
weak as 0.9
volts
up to a
fixed and
regulated 5.0
volts.
The
MAX645
gives the same
treatment
to a
2.4-
volt lithium cell.
Figure
2 shows you
the circuit.
The
secret
is
to
have two
switching
regulators.
The first
regulator
gen-
1.5
volt
alkaline "D" cell
4.7
mHy
100
µHy___
0000
recommended
inductors
are Caddell
-Burns
parts
#1730
-45
and #7070 -25
0000000
nc n
22
µF 0.001
µF
1N5817
220
µF
+5
VDC
output
FIG. 2 -THIS
SIMPLE
SWITCHING
REGULATOR steps
up a single
alkaline cell
to give you
a fixed
+
5 -volt
output at 50
milliamps.
An external
pass transistor
can be added
for
more
output
current.
erates
around
12 volts or so at a
very low current
for
internal use.
That high
voltage
gives
enough
MOS transistor
base drive to
allow
for
high
efficiency.
While the circuit
is quite simple,
careful
selection of
the
inductors
and the
Schottky diode
are
needed
for maximum efficiency.
The
typical efficiency
is
in the
75- percent
range. Currents
up to
59
mils are directly
available,
while
an external
pass transistor
may be
added
for higher current
needs.
For this month's contest,
just
tell
me what you
would do
with a
micro -power
regulator that deliv-
ers
+5 volts off a
nearly dead
sin-
gle alkaline cell.
We
will have all
the usual
Incredible Secret
Money
Machine book
prizes, along
with
an all-
expense -paid
(FOB
Thatcher, AZ) tinaja
quest
for two
for the best entry
of all.
Send all
your
written entries to
me and
not
to
Radio -Electronics.
Refilling SX cartridges
As we have seen
in past col-
umns, a profitable
business
can be
built up
centered around
refilling
toner cartridges
for copiers
and
laser printers.
Many recent
hacker
helpline
requests
have been
for
methods to
refill those Canon
SX
cartridges as
used
in
the
LaserJet
11
and the
LaserWriter
II.
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