/members-area/personalblogs/b/blog/posts/piezohow to connect ABT-441-RC PIEZO ELEMENT, 27MM, 4200HZ to produce high power?en-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/members-area/personalblogs/b/blog/posts/piezoMon, 23 Feb 2015 06:35:50 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:78ce91ac-5928-4f55-8101-55fb737fa2e0dougw1<p>Hi Vincent,</p><p>You just need to run one of the leads to a diode which feeds a capacitor. The other lead of the capacitor connects to the second Piezo element lead. You won&#39;t get huge power out of it - the element can only flex a little bit without cracking and each flex produces just a little charge which ends up on the capacitor. Since the element only generates a small amount of charge on each flex, to get a lot of charge, requires the element to be rapidly flexed. You can see a demonstration of me vibrating an element like this with an old oscillating razor to produce enough current to illuminate a couple of LEDs. They will generate pretty high voltages if there is no load.</p><p><a class="jive-link-blog-small" href="/products/arduino/b/blog/posts/tis-the-season-for-arduino">Tis The Season For Arduino</a></p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=19990&AppID=293&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">