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the power of my load in the dimmer is 200 watts...kchriste said:AC or DC? What voltage? What's the light bulb's wattage?
slosjo said:Ever hear of a PIC running 8 processors at the same time? 8 tasks simultaneously? It really depends on the application, but i'm not so sure your pic is superior. Either way, that isn't the topic of this thread.
Yes, parallax products are more expensive, but my time is worth something...and for the originator of this thread, I think a simple programming solution would be best; a "plug and play" device, such as the parallax propeller.
AND_ECE said:hello
can you help me build a light dimmer circuit?pls thanks alot
slosjo said:Ahh Bill, you raise another good point...free demo compilers, eh?
How about a totally free compiler and development environment for spin and assembly? Spin for higher level stuff you don't want to mess with, and assembly for the time sensitive stuff...and you can keep it without paying! whoa..nice.
you said "Besides that propeller demo you still have to wire up all sorts of parts IE triac, zero crossing detector and such."
With the propeller prototype board, you don't have to add any of these things, like I said the board is ready to go when you get it. You may have to add these things to add peripherals, like a light dimmer, but you would also need that on the pic...I guess I don't see your point.
I would be willing to bet if we both started from scratch, I could make a wireless light dimmer using parallax cheaper than you could with a PIC...the only difference being that mine would be able to deliver a beer to you straight from the fridge in addition to being able to set the mood lighting (Labatts eh?)
It's an interesting chip. I like the serial bootloader, but there is something cheesy about having a picture of a propeller geekhat stamped on a chip:slosjo said:You could very easily make your dimmer circuit wireless by using this microcontroller:
**broken link removed**
blueroomelectronics said:And the best part is AND_ECE will say...
Shazamshaneshane1 said:He would say could i get you to re type all that again so i can read it again sir