Final Project Outline

Introduction : When we come to the concept of electrical and electronic equipment

testing or checking the first things comes to our mind is safety.So our goal is to make a non
contact ac current detector as its ensure safety from electric current.

The resistance of our body is approximately 100000 ohms when our body is wet it comes
down to 1000 ohms.If 100-200 mA current flows in our body severe burning will happen and
it also can cause death.So when using electrical equipment we have to be very carefull about
touching or testing equipment without knowing the current presence of ac or dc voltage.

We know the fact that same ac voltage is dangerous than dc voltage as it changes its
direction periodically. Generally the ac voltage in our home is (110-220)V at the frequency of
50Hz and it will be lethal if we touch this line. It will be great if we know the presence of
alternating current without touching the wire .For this purpose we can use non contact
alternating current detector. By using this we can sense the alternating current in the wire or
other place without touching anything or getting shocked. When this device comes near to
current carrying conductor the led blinks and generates sound.

The normal tester which is used by the most of the electrician is not non contact and also it
can not detect current if the wire is isolated and also by using this tester we can’t understand
the presence of current around us.When it is completely dark and we don’t know where the
electrical wire is goes in and out at this moment using tester will not be good.We can easily
solve those problem by using this non contact ac current detector device.This device is very
helpful when working on main line or switch board and it protect us from electric shock.

By using transistor switching operation we can make this device .We know when current
passing through a conductor it produce magnetic field around the wire the production rate of
magnetic field is proportional to the rate of flows of current. In this device a antena is
connected to the base of transistor to collect signal. Due to electromagnetic induction a small
current in induced in the base of transistor which is used to turn on the circuit. As the signal is
very small one transistor can’t do this operation. By using darlington configuration and
multiple transistor we can increase the gain and turn on the the circui.Thus when our device
will comes to ac current it turns on and gives us audible and visual alarm and secure us from
getting shocked of high voltage.