Sunday, September 10, 2023

Automatic Dark switch / photocell

This circuit is an Automatic Dark switch or photocell using a solar panel.

It can switch ON the light bulb at night and turns it OFF at day time automatically.

You have to connect it across the garden switch.

NOTE: The solar panel here used just to activate the relay, not to produce the high voltage for the light bulb, you need an external 110/220V source (grid power).

 

Automatic Dark switch / photocell

 

Parts list:

Solar panel 6V 1.1W

Relay 5V

Diode 1N4007


Circuit:

Automatic Dark switch / photocell

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