Clap Clap Switch Circuit - Double Clap Switch Circuit

The following article shows how to build a clap switch circuit which operates a load only in response to two subsequent clap sounds. Thus the following circuit will operate a load when a "clap clap" sound hits the attached mic.


I have discussed a couple of clap switch circuit designs in some of my earlier posts, however these have the ability to operate only with single alternate clap sounds. This feature makes the circuit vulnerable to external sounds which might occur occasionally triggering the connected load with the circuit.

A double clap operated circuit thus becomes more suitable and resistant to spurious triggering due to the fact that it would toggle only in response to two subsequent clap sounds instead of one.


The explained circuit is simple yet effective and does not employ microntrollers for the implementation unlike other circuits on the net.

The circuit has not been tested by me, so it's important to first understand the stages convincingly, and then build it to avoid failures.

The proposed clap clap circuit or double clap circuit functioning may be understood with the following points:

The lower stage is basically a simple sound activated switch circuit which would activate with any loud sound.

The IC 741 is rigged like a comparator with its pin#2 referenced at some optimal fixed potential determined by  the setting of the given preset VR1.

Pin#3 of the IC becomes the sensing input of the IC and is connected with a sensitive mic.

The adjoining IC 4017 is a flip flop stage which activates the connected relay driver stage and the load alternately in response to every positive high pulse at its pin#14.

When  a loud sound such as a "clap" hits the mic, it momentarily grounds pin#2 of the IC741 resulting in a momentary high pulse at its pin#6.

If we connected this output to pin#14 of IC4017 would have resulted in an instant toggling of the load with every single sound input which we don't want here to happen, therefore the response at pin#6 of  IC741 is broken and diverted to an IC 555 monostable stage.

The IC 555 circuit is rigged in such a way that when its pin#2 is grounded, its output pin#3 becomes momentarily high for some period of time depending upon the values of the 10uF capacitor.

When a sound hits the mic, the high pulse from IC741 output triggers the BC547 attached to pin2 of IC555 which momentarily grounds pin#2 of IC555, which in turn put its pin#3 high.

However the instantaneous high at pin#3 of IC555 takes a while to reach the connected BC547 due to the presence of the 33uF capacitor.

By the time the 33uF charges and switches ON the transistor, the potential at the collector of the transistor is already gone due the absence of the clap sound which happens only momentarily.

However with the application of the immediate subsequent clap provides the required potential at the collector of the transistor which is now allowed to the reach pin#14 of the flip flop IC 4017.

Once this happens the relay driver triggers or deactivates depending upon its initial condition.

The toggling of the load thus takes place only in response to a pair of cap of sounds making the circuit reasonably foolpoof.





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