Jasen
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Howdy, I'm Jasen and my electronics experience consists of push the power button and use the other buttons to make the device do what you want it to do.
I have been a shade tree mechanic for 30 years and a carpenter/woodworker for 20+ years.
I'm planning on getting one of those electronics labs for kids with a bread board to cut my teeth on before I dive into this project.
So to my point.
I've been reading up on this stuff, which I'm just barely grasping at this point.
I've got the notion of building some custom LED tail lights.
It's a GM with the standard double filament tail light bulbs. One for running lights one for brake/blinker.
What I'm looking at doing is running 5 rows of LED's and using a IC555 cycling high to give the effect of dimmer tail lights. Then I want to run a sequencing circuit that will make each row of brake lights cycle on one at a time and all stay on until the brake is released. I also want the blinkers to do the same but us another IC555 as a flasher which will reset the cycle and run it again until the blinker is turned off. I've found a few schematics online for building a sequencing circuit. I'm thinking I need to use a closed relay wired between the running lights and brake/blinker to interrupt the current from the running lights when the brake blinker are activated so as not to put to much forward volts to the LEDs and to interrupt the high cycling IC555 as well.
Hope this all makes sense, I'm not wet behind the ears, but rather dripping wet![Wink ;) ;)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Heres my concept schematic, if all y'all wouldn't mind telling me how far off base I am and maybe point me in the right direction.
**broken link removed**
Thanx,
Jasen![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
I have been a shade tree mechanic for 30 years and a carpenter/woodworker for 20+ years.
I'm planning on getting one of those electronics labs for kids with a bread board to cut my teeth on before I dive into this project.
So to my point.
I've been reading up on this stuff, which I'm just barely grasping at this point.
I've got the notion of building some custom LED tail lights.
It's a GM with the standard double filament tail light bulbs. One for running lights one for brake/blinker.
What I'm looking at doing is running 5 rows of LED's and using a IC555 cycling high to give the effect of dimmer tail lights. Then I want to run a sequencing circuit that will make each row of brake lights cycle on one at a time and all stay on until the brake is released. I also want the blinkers to do the same but us another IC555 as a flasher which will reset the cycle and run it again until the blinker is turned off. I've found a few schematics online for building a sequencing circuit. I'm thinking I need to use a closed relay wired between the running lights and brake/blinker to interrupt the current from the running lights when the brake blinker are activated so as not to put to much forward volts to the LEDs and to interrupt the high cycling IC555 as well.
Hope this all makes sense, I'm not wet behind the ears, but rather dripping wet
Heres my concept schematic, if all y'all wouldn't mind telling me how far off base I am and maybe point me in the right direction.
**broken link removed**
Thanx,
Jasen