Practical Examples of The Use of The Relaxation Oscillator
This type of circuit was used as the time base in early oscilloscopes and television receivers. Variants of this circuit find use in stroboscopes used in machine shops and nightclubs. Electronic camera flashes are a monostable version of this circuit, generating one cycle of the sawtooth. The rising edge develops as the flash capacitor is charged, and the rapid falling edge as the capacitor is discharged. The flash is produced upon receiving the firing signal from the shutter button. Use as a timebase in oscilloscopes was discontinued when the much more linear Miller Integrator timebase circuit (invented by A.D. Blumlein) using "hard" valves, (vacuum tubes) as a constant current source, was developed.
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