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IPac won't light up 12v lamps?
Brad Lee:
I was messing around today with my coin door lights (12v lamps, not leds) and conencted one end to my 12v power, the other to P1B7, figuring it would light the reject on the side I conencted instead of being just solid-on
Didn't work
It did cause the lamp to glow very dimly, and when I pressed the matching -lock key it got a tiny bit brighter, but nowhere usable
Now I just need to remember to get a few extra 5v superbright led's wheneever I order them
SirPoonga:
1, use the led header on the ipac.
2, that header is 5v
3, if you want 12 volt you will need relays.
anthony691:
Why don't you just use the Molex power from the PC? ???
rampy:
--- Quote from: anthony691 on April 08, 2003, 04:24:44 pm ---Why don't you just use the Molex power from the PC? ???
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I think he's trying to get them to blink, but i'm not sure why...
*shrug* be careful, I'd hate to see you fry your ipac because you like blinkey lights. =P
rampy
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--- Quote from: Brad Lee on April 08, 2003, 04:11:18 pm ---I was messing around today with my coin door lights (12v lamps, not leds) and conencted one end to my 12v power, the other to P1B7, figuring it would light the reject on the side I conencted instead of being just solid-on
Didn't work
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:o
You're very lucky you didn't cook the IPac! Take sirpoonga's advice, you need to use a relay to use the ipac to trigger lights connected to 12v. The relay will isolate the 12v circuit from the ipac.
Or, use 5v superbright led's - there was another post on this board that dealt with exactly that, I think the post was by oscar...