Wow!!! i'm suprised at the amount of replies i've had to my project. Thank you all for taking the time to submit your help and ideas.
HarveyH42 said:
The title to this thread... '20 lights latching two at a time'. Guess I mis-understood what he meant. I thought he wanted the path to slowly light up, and stay lit for a while, before turning off again.
Hello Harvey yes this is the effect i am after.
Hi Hayato thanks for the circuit ideas
Sorry but the images are static on my computer.
I"ve only run one row of lights.
My (revised) idea is to have 1+20 come on, about 0.5 Secs later 2+19 also come on then 3+ 18 and so on until they are all lit. Stay on for 5 mins then all turn off.
The idea is for the path to light up at your feet then carry on lighting into the distance. If i had gone with my first idea (1+11, 2+12 etc) you would have had to be at the right end or the lights would come on from the distance running up to your feet, or design it to run in reverse order when initialised from each end
As the path meanders through native bush no one will see it running from each end to the middle
As a bit of overkill. From a job i've just finished, left over were a pair of safety beams which i've set up at each end of the path so it now lights up automatically when someone walks through them.
Unfortunately, they all come on at the same time at the moment as I've run out of cores in the cabling. Until i instal new wiring to cater for the staggered effect.
Hope this clears up the effect i'm after.
When I've finished the project am i allowed to load a video on this forum to show it in action?