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florianL21 / LED-ClockShelf

Code base for a completely customizable and configurable LED clock using WS2812b RGB LEDs. Controllable via the Blynk app
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Electronics shelf sleeve placement #23

Open menthol1979 opened 2 weeks ago

menthol1979 commented 2 weeks ago

Hello ! First of all, many thanks for your work! It is absolutely marvelous and I decided to build one. However, I have a (stupid maybe) question. DIY Machines places the electronics shelf on top right position. Based on your diagram, since your design starts at lower left, where this module should be placed? On position 0, position 15 or position 7?

Thank you!

florianL21 commented 1 week ago

Hi,

I built 2 of these already and on one of them I made an electronics box that contains the ESP and the PSU and only have the 3 wires required for driving the LEDs running up to the left bottom corner. On the other I packed the ESP and other components quite tightly together and placed it within the walls of the shelf, also on the left bottom corner. I have to say that I personally prefer the first solution as the PSU will anyway have to be on the floor and the self contained box was easier to build. Ofc that now means if anything goes wrong I now have to open the electronics box that has mains voltage in it. So ultimately it's always a trade off and it will come down to what you prefer

menthol1979 commented 1 week ago

Hi Florian! Thank you for your answer! That is, by looking at the JPG image : Screenshot 2024-06-25 234147 Shall I assume on position 0 ? I know that this can be customized later, but as a default reference to make it work on first run without any changes. Thanks!

florianL21 commented 1 week ago

Ah sorry, I misunderstood. Yes the red arrow coming in from the left side towards the segment 0 is where the signal enters the LED strips. Note that the segments do have a direction to them so you always have to watch out to wire from the output of one segment to the input of the next one. Thus the "input" wire has to be wired to the input side of the LED strip of segment 0 on this picture

menthol1979 commented 1 week ago

Excellent, so the electronics sleeve goes to 0! Will pick up my board tomorrow and immediately start assembling. Thanks for all the great work Florian!