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System code for Arduino based Lightsaber replicas for DIYino family boards
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RBG crystal chamber #26

Closed FatherCool closed 4 years ago

FatherCool commented 6 years ago

Has anyone used a standard 5mm rgb led to light their crystal chamber to mirror blade colour. I don't really want to run them parellel to the blade leds as they are running 1A per die whereas the 5mm led will only draw around 20mA per die?

How would I hook this up with FXsaberOS?

jbkuma commented 6 years ago

Parallel is fine. You just need to properly resistor you LEDs independently.

All of your power connections are actually in parallel or series to your battery one way or another, some paths are just more complicated.

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Has anyone used a standard 5mm rgb led to light their crystal chamber to mirror blade colour. I don't really want to run them parellel to the blade leds as they are running 1A per die whereas the 5mm led will only draw around 20mA per die?

How would I hook this up with FXsaberOS?

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Protonerd commented 6 years ago

You can trust jbkuma's word on it. I tried, parallel drive will work. Do not forget, the voltage is parellel, the current is not.

FatherCool commented 6 years ago

True.

I don't think that it will work in my case however looking at how I'm wiring the chassis as I am making a plug in chassis where the blade LED side of the circuit is left in the hilt. The crystal chamber will be on the removable portion so the crystal led won't have access to the individual blade LED feeds to be wired in parallel to them. I might have to just do a deactivated crystal as the switches will also be on the hilt side so won't be able to turn it on outside the saber, which arguably is more realistic anyway!

shiryu55 commented 6 years ago

I'm also thinking how to create crystal lighting, put a led rgb, and light the color depending on the main color selection, and look just like efects of the lightsaber.

This would be possible. ??

shiryu55 commented 6 years ago

fathercool , you are using a homebrew plate or a purchased for the chassis, I am trying to build a chassis for my graflex, if you want we could interambiar information for the creation of the chassis.

FatherCool commented 6 years ago

Hi I am designing the chassis as a bespoke unit for my saber. I am a 3D CAD designers by trade. I will get it 3D printed once complete. I don't know if it would be suitable for your build though as mine isn't a Graflex but a custom hilt that I made from machined aluminium and stainless steel exhaust pipe.

shiryu55 commented 6 years ago

Any way, if you share your chassis , to take info, I would be grateful

FatherCool commented 6 years ago

No problem. I will post some info once it is done. It will have locations built into it to accept and hold the arduino nano v3.0, MPU-6050 and DFPlayer together with a 18650 battery.

shiryu55 commented 6 years ago

ok , I use a homebrew model.

FatherCool commented 6 years ago

Yes mine is homebrew also.

shiryu55 commented 6 years ago

https://www.shapeways.com/product/D8ET7SSAD/graflex-2187-light-v2?optionId=60678043&li=marketplace

I would love to create something like that