LED Help Please!
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LED Help Please!
OK all of you electrical geniuses, I want some wiring help send it to me e-mail, point me at a url or answer here... whatever is easy for you I just need the information real, real bad! Here goes I want to take a strip of four or five LED's wired so that I can have them come on at a low level when my running (parking) lights are on, then I would like them to get brighter when I turn on my head lights. Finally I would like to have them flash in sequence all on bright, then the last three on bright and the first on low lighted, then the first two go low with the last two still bright, then the third goes dim followed by the fourth then they all get bright again. This "flashing" occurs when I turn on my turn signal. Hope this describes the task completely, e-mail me for a better description... Thankx in advance... Someone please help me with this? I really wqant to do it! my e-mail address is meshaffer at mindspring.com
Mike
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LED Help Please!
>>>I want to take a strip of four or five LED's wired so that I can have them come on at a low level when my running (parking) lights are on, then I would like them to get brighter when I turn on my head lights. Finally I would like to have them flash in sequence all on bright, then the last three on bright and the first on low lighted, then the first two go low with the last two still bright, then the third goes dim followed by the fourth then they all get bright again. This "flashing" occurs when I turn on my turn signal. <<<
You could get a computer chip designed for you, Programmable chip can take any logic gate design. I could get kind of expensive for a programable chip and then a custom circuit board, would need to use some relays, to get clean signals to the board.
Chris
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You could get a computer chip designed for you, Programmable chip can take any logic gate design. I could get kind of expensive for a programable chip and then a custom circuit board, would need to use some relays, to get clean signals to the board.
Chris
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LED Help Please!
Just a thought to toss your way, maybe you could take a controller from one of the traffic safety devices, ie. an arrow stick(multiple functions, left, right, center out, wig-wag, ect.) or strobe contoller(multiple # of strobe flashes, 3 per, 4 per, 5 per or single flash with hi/low-day/night intensity modifier built in) or some combo of the two and have it modified to suit your intended purpose.
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From the answers I have gotten, I guess this isn't as easy as I had originally thought it would be. I was thinking that just wiring the LED's with a resistor of some sort for the low side (parking lights on) and then when the turn signal circuit was activated bypass the resistor for brightness and have each LED get brighter in series with some sort of a delay circuit.... My problem is I really don't know anything about electronics I am only guessing as to a solution.... Anyone else have an idea?
Mike
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