ESC drive LED lights?

[pnpapp]

Is it possible to modify the ESC program to drive LED lights? I'm planning to use the strip type LED lights on night-flyer, and it would be cool to have control of the lights. The LED has individual control (RGB) but individual or global control is useful. The lights I have control the ground (common power, individual ground).

Would be cool to have independent control of each color, but I think that BL32 has the s.bus control...

Would this interest anyone enought to help?

[robomaniac]

on modern flight controller you can control LED strips. They have a output for those LED strip. This is much simpler and cheaper to do. You also have a lot of control over how the LED behaves.

No need to use ESC with custom firmware.

google "betaflight led strip"

[pnpapp]

And if I'm not using a FC? On Tuesday, August 24, 2021, 10:55:21 AM PDT, Jérôme Demers @.***> wrote:

on modern flight controller you can control LED strips. They have a output for those LED strip. This is much simpler and cheaper to do. You also have a lot of control over how the LED behaves.

No need to use ESC with custom firmware.

google "betaflight led strip"

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[robomaniac]

simply use any RGB controller on the market! Controller made for general purpose with remote or use some for RC use like the iFlight 2-6S LED Strip Smart Controller Board or HGLRC 2812 2-6S LED Controller Board.

You can also use a FC just to control the LED and not actual flying.

make your own with arduino/esp32 with neopixel or RGB light. There is tons of open source projects out there.

if you are not using a FC, this mean it's a wing. Have a look at using a FC for wing, Mateksys got the F722-WING. Once the LED are connected you can make LED change color when you roll or whatever you want (mostly).

Go check those videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxhoKpz-uzw

also just so you know, there is 2 types of RGB light. Actual 3 led in same body and that needs 3 wires to control each LED and one for GND/VBATT. The other LED are neopixel or ws2812 which are LED that have microcontroller in them. Only need power and 1 data signal. They are all daisy chain together but you can control each LED separately (color and brightness )!

[pnpapp]

Thanks Jerome. From my quick look, it doesn't seem like I can do what I wanted. IF this is not possible, or on the roadmap for BL-heli, that is fine. What I had wanted was the ability to light an aircraft (for night flying) using 3 color LED tape (I don't see what I purchased, but is uses a similar controller to what you pointed to). This pulls up to 5A. I thought it would be cool to control the color directly from the Tx. An ESC can source/sink 3 channels, which seemed to be an interesting possibility. If I look, the FC would probably work, but that adds complexity, and weight to the aircraft. I'm refitting an old trainer for night & float flying, so I wanted to exclude extra weight where possible. On Wednesday, August 25, 2021, 11:36:50 AM PDT, Jérôme Demers @.***> wrote:

simply use any RGB controller on the market! Controller made for general purpose with remote or use some for RC use like the iFlight 2-6S LED Strip Smart Controller Board or HGLRC 2812 2-6S LED Controller Board.

You can also use a FC just to control the LED and not actual flying.

make your own with arduino/esp32 with neopixel or RGB light. There is tons of open source projects out there.

if you are not using a FC, this mean it's a wing. Have a look at using a FC for wing, Mateksys got the F722-WING. Once the LED are connected you can make LED change color when you roll or whatever you want (mostly).

Go check those videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxhoKpz-uzw

also just so you know, there is 2 types of RGB light. Actual 3 led in same body and that needs 3 wires to control each LED and one for GND/VBATT. The other LED are neopixel or ws2812 which are LED that have microcontroller in them. Only need power and 1 data signal. They are all daisy chain together but you can control each LED separately (color and brightness )!

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