MonkeyMera
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Please can I have some help, this is to be used in a car (12V DC). I'm not very good with this sort of thing, I'm better with car wiring.
I want to create as many colours as I can in my car, I thought of using RGB LED's because they can create loads of colours in one unit. These LED's have 4 legs, one common earth, 1 for red 1 for blue and 1 for green. I want to be able to scroll through the colours automatically, I think I have found a way of doing it (it's a bit Mickey Mouse) and I was wondering if you people could think of a better or (cheaper) smaller way of doing it. I've shown each colour as a separate LED for ease,
TR2 is a Time Delay Relay set to delay 2 seconds
TR3 is a Time Delay Relay set to delay 4 seconds
The dimmer switch is a normal touch sensitive dimmer switch (TSDS), the touch panel/switch will be removed and a normal on/off switch added in its place, the reason for doing this is if you press and hold a TSDS it goes bright then dark and so on. It takes about 4 seconds from off to full bright to off again, using this bright to dark and combining the time delays it should give me a scroll of all available colours. Also (not shown) I plan to put in a manual rotary dimmer knob for each colour (so I can select an hold a colour), this circuit will be running in parallel with this one, when the circuit that is shown bellow is switch on a relay is thrown switching off the dimmer knobs. I'm going to be controlling about 50 LED's in banks of 10.
I have never used a PIC before nor do I know how do program one, I under stand it can get quite expensive to get set-up. But if its easy to do I might look in to it if you could give me some guidance.
I applogise if the diagram isnt good, im not that good at wiring diagrams
Your help would be appreciated
Monkey
Diagram
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I want to create as many colours as I can in my car, I thought of using RGB LED's because they can create loads of colours in one unit. These LED's have 4 legs, one common earth, 1 for red 1 for blue and 1 for green. I want to be able to scroll through the colours automatically, I think I have found a way of doing it (it's a bit Mickey Mouse) and I was wondering if you people could think of a better or (cheaper) smaller way of doing it. I've shown each colour as a separate LED for ease,
TR2 is a Time Delay Relay set to delay 2 seconds
TR3 is a Time Delay Relay set to delay 4 seconds
The dimmer switch is a normal touch sensitive dimmer switch (TSDS), the touch panel/switch will be removed and a normal on/off switch added in its place, the reason for doing this is if you press and hold a TSDS it goes bright then dark and so on. It takes about 4 seconds from off to full bright to off again, using this bright to dark and combining the time delays it should give me a scroll of all available colours. Also (not shown) I plan to put in a manual rotary dimmer knob for each colour (so I can select an hold a colour), this circuit will be running in parallel with this one, when the circuit that is shown bellow is switch on a relay is thrown switching off the dimmer knobs. I'm going to be controlling about 50 LED's in banks of 10.
I have never used a PIC before nor do I know how do program one, I under stand it can get quite expensive to get set-up. But if its easy to do I might look in to it if you could give me some guidance.
I applogise if the diagram isnt good, im not that good at wiring diagrams
Your help would be appreciated
Monkey
Diagram
**broken link removed**