4. PRINCIPLE OF OPERATION
This circuits uses very few component and gives
melody sound. It uses 3 terminal IC UM66 and can
be build small enough to be placed inside a
greeting card and operated off a single 3V flat
button cell.
There is not much to the circuit. The UM66 is
connected to its supply and its output fed to a
transistor for amplification. Any common speaker
can be used or a “flat” piezoelectric tweeter like the
one found in alarm wrist watches. If you use the
piezo , then it can be connected directly between
the output pin 1 and ground pin 3 without the
transistor.
5. The UM66 looks like a transistor with 3 terminals.
It is complete miniature tone generator with a
tune. Now they come with wide variety of
different tunes.
For amplification we have used a NPN transistor
which is BC548. Here BC548 makes a common
emitter circuit. For limiting the base current we
have used a resistance of 220 Ohms so that
transistor will not get damaged by excess
current.