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555 Timer Monostable

The document discusses the 555 monostable timer circuit. When a trigger pulse is applied, it sets the internal flip-flop and turns off the discharge transistor, allowing the timing capacitor to charge through a resistor. When the capacitor voltage reaches 2/3 of the supply voltage, it resets the flip-flop and discharges the capacitor. This causes the output to pulse high for a duration determined by the resistor-capacitor time constant.

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555 Timer Monostable

The document discusses the 555 monostable timer circuit. When a trigger pulse is applied, it sets the internal flip-flop and turns off the discharge transistor, allowing the timing capacitor to charge through a resistor. When the capacitor voltage reaches 2/3 of the supply voltage, it resets the flip-flop and discharges the capacitor. This causes the output to pulse high for a duration determined by the resistor-capacitor time constant.

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The Monostable 555 Timer

The operation and output of the 555 Monostable is exactly the same as that for the transistorised one we look at previously in the Monostable Multivibrators tutorial. The difference this time is that the two transistors have been replaced by the 555 timer device. Consider the 555 Monostable circuit below.

Monostable 555 Timer

Monostable Multivibrator When a negative ( 0V ) pulse is applied to the trigger input (pin 2) of the Monostable configured 555 Timer oscillator, the internal comparator, (comparator No1) detects this input and "sets" the state of the flip-flop, changing the output from a "LOW" state to a "HIGH" state. This action inturn turns "OFF" the discharge transistor connected to pin 7, thereby removing the short circuit across the external timing capacitor, C1.

This action allows the timing capacitor to start to charge up through resistor, R1 until the voltage across the capacitor reaches the threshold (pin 6) voltage of 2/3Vcc set up by the internal voltage divider network. At this point the comparators output goes "HIGH" and "resets" the flip-flop back to its original state which inturn turns "ON" the transistor and discharges the capacitor to ground through pin 7. This causes the output to change its state back to the original stable "LOW" value awaiting another trigger pulse to start the timing process over again. Then as before, the Monostable Multivibrator has only "ONE" stable state.

R2

C1 Inverter

Timer in Monostable operation with functional diagram The Monostable 555 Timer circuit triggers on a negative-going pulse applied to pin 2 and this trigger pulse must be much shorter than the output pulse width allowing time for the timing capacitor to charge and then discharge fully. Once triggered, the 555 Monostable will remain in this "HIGH" unstable output state until the time period set up by the R1 x C1 network has elapsed. The amount of time that the output voltage remains "HIGH" or at a logic "1" level, is given by the following time constant equation.

Where, t is in seconds, R is in 's and C in Farads.

Timing Pulses of 555 Timer

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