An infrared flood light is a circuit that creates an illumination over a wide range of area using infrared frequency. This infrared illuminated area can be perfectly visualized through specialized infrared gasses and IR cameras, but can be totally invisible to naked eye.
In this post we study a simple infra red based flood light system which can used for illuminating large landscapes during night for monitoring wide aresa through IR spectacle.
The Design
The adjoining design shows a simple IR flood light circuit diagram for IR illumination applications.The 4049 section is the basic voltage doubler circuit which effectively boosts the 9 V supply to a level of around 15 V which further becomes the supply voltage for the next 555 pulse modulator section.
The voltage is suitably pulsed as per the settings of P1 and P2 for driving the associated IR LEDs.
The main feature of this infrared IR LED flood light circuit is that it utilizes just a single PP3 9 volt battery and yet is able to provide lights (IR) at dazzling levels.
Infra Red (IR) LED Flood Light Circuit Diagram
Parts List
- Resistors are 1/4 watt 5% CFR
- 100 k = 1
- 50 Ω = one on each LED string
- 1 kΩ = 2
- P1, P2 preset trimpots 10 kΩ = 2
- Capacitors
- Ceramic 470 pF = 1
- Ceramic 1 nF = 1
- Electrolytic 10 µF / 25 V = 2
- Semiconductors
- Diodes 1N4148 = 4
- IC 555 = 1
- IC 4049 = 1
- Infrared LEDs = as per the requirement on the LED strings