Hello everybody! I can't seem to find anyone to help me with my problem at my university. I am going to be in a entrepreneurship competition next Saturday and need some help putting together a circuit for our exhibit. Our company will distribute kinetic road surfaces and speed bumps that generate electricity from the braking process of vehicles, which would otherwise go to waste in the form of heat.
The exhibit is a scaled down version of the road surface that I want to act as a switch for a circuit that will light 3 leds. So when the toy car crosses over the surface 3 leds will turn on in a toy house for a 10 seconds. I want it to run off 3 to 18 volts. I have looked at a few other schematics on the site and was worried that since the time the switch is activated is so short maybe some of the designs incorporating capacitors might be ineffective. I have some bright white leds that i believe run off 3.1V.
Sorry my thoughts are so scatter brained, but sleep is not something I get to do a lot of these days. Any help you guys can offer would be more then appreciated. Thanks for reading.
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The exhibit is a scaled down version of the road surface that I want to act as a switch for a circuit that will light 3 leds. So when the toy car crosses over the surface 3 leds will turn on in a toy house for a 10 seconds. I want it to run off 3 to 18 volts. I have looked at a few other schematics on the site and was worried that since the time the switch is activated is so short maybe some of the designs incorporating capacitors might be ineffective. I have some bright white leds that i believe run off 3.1V.
Sorry my thoughts are so scatter brained, but sleep is not something I get to do a lot of these days. Any help you guys can offer would be more then appreciated. Thanks for reading.
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