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Street Light Controller

This document summarizes a street light controller circuit that overcomes problems with ambient light variations and lack of control over switching. The circuit uses an op-amp, ripple counter, SCR, transistors, and other components to control a street light. It turns the light on when the ripple counter output goes high after dark and turns it off when another output goes high, controlled by the reset pin on the counter. The circuit operates off 12V DC and can be assembled on a PCB and enclosed in a cabinet.

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Street Light Controller

This document summarizes a street light controller circuit that overcomes problems with ambient light variations and lack of control over switching. The circuit uses an op-amp, ripple counter, SCR, transistors, and other components to control a street light. It turns the light on when the ripple counter output goes high after dark and turns it off when another output goes high, controlled by the reset pin on the counter. The circuit operates off 12V DC and can be assembled on a PCB and enclosed in a cabinet.

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Street Light Controller

Two of the problems commonly associated with street lights are false triggering
due to slight variation in the intensity of ambient light and no control over
switching action. Here is a simple street light controller with a switching circuit
that overcomes these problems.

Street light controller circuit


The circuit is built around popular op-amp IC 741 (IC1), 14-bit ripple counter
CD4060 (IC2), SCR BT169, BC557 and other components. IC1 along with LDR1
enables IC2, which drives transistor T1 into conduction. IC2 is also used to
trigger SCR1 to switch on the street light. Removal of trigger turns the light
‘off.’

Street light controller with a switching circuit


IC CD4060 has an inbuilt oscillator around its pins 9, 10 and 11. Pin 12 is the
master reset (MR) control. The oscillator is disabled when pin 12 is high and
enabled when pin 12 is low.
Circuit operation
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In daytime, i.e., when light is falling on LDR1, its resistance decreases and the
high output at pin 6 of IC1 cuts off pnp transistor T1 and disables IC2. At this
stage, SCR1 remains untriggered to switch off the street light.

At night, i.e., when no light is falling on LDR1, its resistance increases and low
output pin 6 of IC1 drives pnp transistor T1 into conduction. This enables IC2
and its internal oscillator starts oscillating.

After a preset time, pin 14 (Q7) of IC2 goes high and SCR BT169 is triggered
through resistor R9 and diode D3. This energises RL1 and street light is turned
on. This time interval can be varied by connecting the gate of SCR1 to pins 6,
13, etc of IC CD4060 (not shown in Fig. 1). Transistor T2, which is normally
conducting, is driven into non-conduction when output pin 3 (Q13) of IC2 goes
high, which de-energises relay RL1 to switch off the street light. This time can
be adjusted with the varying preset resistor VR2.

Put simply, the street light turns ‘on’ when Q7 of IC2 goes high and ‘off’ when
Q13 goes high, provided pin 12 of IC2 remains low.

Construction & testing


The circuit works off regulated 12V DC. You can assemble it on any general-
purpose PCB and enclose in a suitable cabinet. The mains AC terminal for the
street light is connected to the normally-open (N/O) contact of relay RL1, so the
street light turns on when the relay energises.

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