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  1. What voltage does the solenoid run off? Unless it's mains then it won't have mains rated insulation so isn't safe to use a capacitive power supply.

    How much current does it draw? Capacitive power supplies are only suitable for low currents. Above 20mA or so, a small transformer becomes more compact and cost effective.

    There's no decoupling on your current circuit. Follow the suggestions I made in my previous post using a switched mode power supply before going any further,

  2. What are you switching with the 555 timer?

    How is it triggered?

    Capacitive power supplies are only suitable for low currents and are not isolated from the mains so the whole circuit, including everything connected to it, needs to be treated as mains and heavily insulated.

    The correct solution of course is to add some filtering so it works from the switched mode power supply. At a bare minimum there should be a 100nF capacitor across the supply rails, 10nF between pin 5 and 0V and some ferrite beads on the power supply rails.

  3. There are plenty of AM/FM radio circuits about.

    What parts can you not get hold of?

    Here's a schematic for a high quality receiver which you should be able to find the components for:
    http://quazar31.home.comcast.net/~quazar31/index.html

    Another option is to buy a kit:
    http://www.elenco.com/admin_data/pdffiles/AMFM-108CK_low-res.pdf

    Of course, don't think about saving any money. It's much cheaper just to buy a radio off the shelf but see it as an educational exercise.

  4. It appears as though you've confused the non-inverting and inverting amplifier topologies.

    As we said many times in the thread linked to above, you need to build a non-inverting amplifier with the negative feedback taken from the output side of the buffer.

    Read the documents linked below. If you don't understand them, read them again. Then if it's still not clear ask here.
    https://www.onsemi.com/pub/Collateral/SR004AN-D.PDF
    http://www.ti.com/lit/an/snva558/snva558.pdf

  5. Yes, it's an OR network. The diodes make it so the op-amps can only divert current away from the bases of the driver transistors.

    A1 is the voltage error amplifier and A2 is the current error amplifier and the OR network stops them from fighting one another.

    The drop-out voltage will be huge, made worse by the ORing diodes. All those transistors are connected together to form a lagre three stage Darlington so the over all voltage drop will be over 3 diode drops, plus the saturation voltage.

  6. The voltage across the capacitor should never exceed its rated value, indeed it's a good idea to leave a safety margin of at least 10%, so it it's rated to 2.7V, keep the voltage below 2.43V.

    Supercapacitors are polarised and should never be subjected to reverse voltage for any period of time, typical ratings for short term voltage reversal are 10% of the rated voltage or 0.6V, whichever is lower, so if it's rated to 2.7V, the reverse voltage should never be greater than 0.27V and it's a bad idea to leave the capacitor reverse biased for long periods of time.

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