DIY METAL DETECTOR, Gone Wrong and Right!!

hi today I want to make a metal detector you know to find silver and gold and The Ridges of people who just throw them around for me to find but how do we make one with Google [Music] what he just made some gadgets to stab metal that's not it maybe this will be the one is is this sort of metal detecting a thing so they stick some nail or screw into the wood wire it to a light say this one then I suppose power it with 120 volts we plug it in well they're using a battery but whatever then we stab soil with it and if you're lucky enough to stab a piece of metal there is just some debris oh foreign with these spikes it shorts between the contacts like a switch turning the light on with this rubbish you only get to search a very small area every time you step at least you're smart enough to use a battery absolutely useless searching one inch at a time digging would be faster and yet the video has over 2 million views imagine someone uses this to find a landmine the correct way to metal detectoring is with magnetic fields as in inductors and for that we have to do a bunch of testing using my sponsor keysights tools who are having a brand new event called keysight World innovate a three-day free event in which they will cover some future technology like in day one they'll talk about how we are going to create Super Speed network highways using 5G and 6G 6G are we pushing the frequencies even higher into the infrared or visible light spectrum or are we skipping straight into ultraviolet Spectrum I guess we'll learn about it if we sign up from my link in the description more at the end so the magnetic fields generated by an inductor can penetrate deep into the soil and let us know what's going on under it like this primary coil of my microwave oven Transformer without the secondary so no deadly High voltages if we ignore the deadly 120 volt AC anyway we plug it in [Music] oh that's why they glue the core together tight otherwise it wants to fly apart and now we can detect the metal my breaker popped see if your magnet is strong enough it can literally pull metal out of the ground again not something you want searching for land mines and we don't need that much strength but we need to know how a piece of metal affects the magnetic fields and the inductor itself and we have to use AC to create changing magnetic fields changing magnetic fields create Eddy currents in metal which I talked about in my old video which would want to push them apart like you saw in the core but in ferromagnetic material like iron the metal itself becomes an even stronger magnet with fields at the same direction as the electromagnet and gets attracted to the electromagnet but a metal like aluminum that is not ferromagnetic but is paramagnetic slightly attracted to magnetic fields no that's not what I mean what is antiferromagnetic designating or exhibiting a form of magnetism characterized by an anti-parallel alignment of adjacent electron spins in a crystal lattice what I guess I can use non-ferromagnetic lame okay Pharaoh is iron and ferromagnetic is magnetic like iron so for any metal that behaves like aluminum I shall coin the world all you magnetic so we just discovered aluminum is allium magnetic unlike iron that becomes a strong magnet itself due to its atomic structure aluminum doesn't become a magnet but the Eddy currents generated in it create fields that push aluminum away a question for you if you answer it right I'll heart your comment of course the repelling Eddy currents are also created in Iron but the attracting iron magnet is much stronger the Transformer core is iron and should be a very strong attracting magnet then why is that that the repellent anyway this is fantastic it means not only we can detect metal but also we can tell if they are ferromagnetic or audio magnetic here's the inductor but this time I'm measuring its inductance this LCR meter places a voltage across the inductor and measures the voltage and current and calculates inductance and such and if I place a piece of metal on top of it well there is no change how close should I get oh there you go maybe the iron core is focusing the fields too close to the core and very little gets out I should remove it but anyway this piece increases the inductance by around 10 percent max without the core oh seems like the fields are getting a little bit further still it is changing by around 10 percent okay what do we do with this Google [Music] this is fake fake fake fake you're watching Keystone science finally a legitimate Channel he's creating an oscillator circuit using a coil and a capacitor as its filtering circuit it makes an audible tone and when you bring metal close to it the frequency changes if you intend to be finding things in the dirt with this coil at least it's practically useless for that yeah it barely has any range and the frequency barely changes with a maximum of 10 percent inductance change the frequency changes by five percent and listening to The Continuous tone hurts your brain hurts how do we do it then well I have all the information I need which I saved in a folder and didn't look at over three years ago one of my viewers Carl Moorland shared with me the book he co-wrote as well as their website absolutely covering everything about Metal Detectors knowledge and design and schematics maybe it's time to read it wow this got interesting and complicated in a hurry let me do some experiments and make my own simplified version let me show you something interesting I've been experimenting with uh this coil and different frequencies and such well I placed a coil series with a 1K resistor and I'm supplying some sine wave across the whole thing and measuring across the coil and if the inductance changes the voltage across the coil goes up and down now I'm supplying 25 kilohertz across the whole thing and if I just focus on the peak of the signal and bring a pile of copper close to the coil we'll see that copper due to the opposing Eddy currents created through it reduces the inductance and so the voltage across the coil drops and if I bring a piece of Steel close to it we see it increases the inductance and impedance and so the voltage across the coil Rises as expected now if I change the frequency to 100 kilohertz this time we see if we use the copper the inductance drops again and if we use the steel the inductance drops again too so at 100 kilohertz we can't really tell the difference between iron and copper has something to do with the resonance frequency of iron crystals or something but it seems like if we use 25 kilohertz we can tell the difference between ferromagnetic and alumagnetic material so we'll use that on keep repeating all your magnetic until Ward stops putting a red line under it here's the plan I will also make an oscillator using the inductor as its filter any metal close to it will affect the inductance and so the resonance frequency and measuring that I can detect metal and its type for my circuit I'll use the trusty zvs oscillator I like this design with my added current limiter circuit it is pretty reliable it can run the coil at around three times the supply voltage and runs a ton of current through it without loading the supply much but I don't like these two resistors they need to have a small value so they waste a ton of power and get hot in fact if you know of a good solution for this or a better driving circuit let me know in the comments I could heart your comment let's make a circuit I print some sort of coil holder like this let's freestyle a coil I'm using my 26 gauge wire on a 10 centimeter diameter I'll turn five turns first then I pull out a center tap then I'll wind another five turns in the same direction like this a beginning an end and a center tab [Music] calculations I can't just wing it it seems like I have to go with 28 turns with Center tap I think it ended up like 32 turns whatever and here's my circuit too I'll probably have to read just some components like the capacitors to hit the right frequency here's the circuit running on 9 volts so later I can run it on six double a batteries this is the voltage across the coil at around 28 volt amplitude a bit distorted sine wave because I think I miscounted some of my turns but that's okay and this is one side of the coil to ground and I set the frequency to around 25 kilohertz so if you bring a piece of iron close it barely changes maybe if we zoom out yeah we see the frequency drops as iron increases the inductance and if you use a roll of copper we see the frequency Rises as copper reduces inductance but the frequency changes very little with these maybe around one to two percent how do we detect such a small change easy we multiply the sine wave from our coil by another sine wave with a fixed frequency filter the result and listen to it simple dimple from the top multiplying two sine waves results in the sum of two new sine waves one has a frequency equal to the addition of the two original frequencies and the other one is the subtraction of the two now if the two frequencies are very close say two percent apart which for my 25 kilohertz circuit means 500 Hertz the resulting sine waves are 500 Hertz and 50 and a half kilohertz we feed the signal into a say one kilohertz low pass filter to get rid of the useless high frequency and we get an audible frequency let's make it but designing was a different story okay let me save you the hassle I designed my circuit and tested it on my powered breadboard part of my bundle you can buy from my link in the description first off we need a stable power supply so we regulate our 9 volt DC to 5 volt then we create an oscillator circuit I made a Schmidt triggered oscillator and put some potentiometers to fine tune the frequency here is the output of my oscillator circuit and I can fine tune the frequency with potentiometer but wait it's ugly and it's not a sine wave that's the beauty of it it doesn't matter you may be thinking how in the world do we even multiply two sine waves not a problem if you have a square wave multiplying 0 and 1 to a sine wave simply means turning it on and off a square wave is basically the sum of the main frequency and infinite harmonics which results in infinite sine waves at the output only one of which is low frequency enough to pass through our filter beautiful and even more beautiful I don't even need a sine wave from the coil so what if my signal is half a sine wave and has harmonics the frequencies of those harmonics will also shift down and my output won't be a sine wave who cares so here's my simple circuit I take the half sine wave from one side of the inductor through a resistor and use a transistor to short that signal to ground or let it go using the oscillator frequency and this just multiplies the two signals then I simply place a low pass RC to filter the signal at around one kilohertz here is the frequency of my oscillator on top and the coil on the bottom and I tune them to be the same and if I bring a piece of metal close to the coil you see that the frequencies start to differ and the two signals are multiplied into the third one on the bottom as you see let's look at the filters okay now the bottom one is filtered and goes up and down let's zoom out you see the resulting signal can be just a few Hertz now I realize human ears can hardly hear lower frequencies and not at all below 20 Hertz but we can hear a single very fast click of say 500 microseconds because a single pulse has many audible higher frequency harmonics with this I can make use of frequencies even below one Hertz it makes a click I hear it so first I clean up my signal using a Schmidt trigger comparator here's the signal on the top cleaned up and inverted through the comparator then pass it through a high pass RC filter the edge of the signal going through the RC filter turns into this ramp that has a fixed rate dictated by the r and C values pass it through another comparator to make it a pulse so now these ramps turn into pulses with around 500 microsecond widths you see if the frequency changes the pulse width Remains the Same and then we can either press these pulses and send them to a headphone or in my case I just use a transistor to drive a buzzer and here's what we hear we can hear frequencies well below 20 Hertz done here's how it works first we tune the frequency to match the frequency of the coil so we don't hear any pulses of course we should keep all the other metal away then we bring a chunk of metal close to the coil it starts sensing it from like six inches away of course the smaller the metal the less impact it has on the inductance and it's harder to detect and here's the roll of copper not bad let's see if we can detect a quarter from around two inches how about my ring yeah you can do it of course both types of metal create a frequency difference and sound the same but to detect the different Metals we can increase our frequency difference Say by lowering the frequency now ferromagnetic metal lowers the frequency and all your magnetic metal increases the frequency and very noticeable two my oscillator circuit though is not super stable it's frequency drifts a little bit over time which is okay we can't tune for it using the potentiometer or use a Precision oscillator circuit good enough though now we solder all these components onto the board which should improve the circuit performance too yeah I'll probably do it later in a short video I'm just happy it all works thanks to the tools of my sponsor keysight not only keysight makes some of the most sophisticated test and measurement equipment but also they hold events to share and discuss knowledge on the leading technology information and trends like the keysight word innovate a virtual Vision conference that happens starting June 20th to 22nd second three days away so sign up now from my link in the description they will cover four topics in three 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Channel: ElectroBOOM

Views: 2,037,160

Keywords: educational, electrical, ElectroBOOM, science, electronics, engineering, entertainment, equipment, measurement, experiment, mehdi, mehdi sadaghdar, arc, mishap, physics, Sadaghdar, test, tools, circuit, funny, learn, shock, spark, discharge, Metal Detector, BFO, Ferromagnetic, Alumagnetic

Id: yzrVHEB02Hw

Length: 19min 42sec (1182 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 16 2023