Use a tone detector and a microphone preamp (can be bandpass at the same time). Tone detector can be 567 or CD4046, preamp LM358 is enough. Is the buzzer the loudest source around ? Peter On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Patric Anveg=E5rd wrote: >Hi, > >I am currently evaluation different options to be able to recognice a >buzzer sound from a speaker. For different reasons i would prefer to do >this with passive electronics only. Does anyone have any experience with >this kind of problem? It is only one buzzer signal that I need to detect. >The frequency is unknown at the moment... As an output from the passive >electronics I would like to have a change in the logic voltage level. >Since I am really not an expert (by far) on analog electronics I have >really only found one suggestion that I think might work: Band pass the >speaker signal at the buzzer frequency and than integrate the signal to >be able to accept the signal after a certain amount of time. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads