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LED "Cabinet Lighting" Question.
Mysterioii:
If your RGB strips are the "all LEDs are always the same color" type and not the "each LED can be a different color at any point in time" type, then yeah one of those setups would probably be fine. I might suggest getting a spare though, just to be on the safe side. I got an RGB strip off of ebay that came with one just like that, and the controller has apparently gone bad. I coulda just got a bad one, who knows. They're cheap enough that 2 of them still isn't a bad deal.
If you really want a microcontroller you might try a Teensy, you can use the arduino environment and they're cheaper.
[EDIT]: If you're driving an LED strip off of a microcontroller you'd likely need a mosfet circuit or something similar on each color channel, the microcontroller likely wouldn't be able to source/sink enough current for whole strips of LEDs, and many of the strips run off of 12v. I'm not even sure that an LED-Wiz could handle an LED strip without some external circuitry. Too much current.
loz1962:
Hi Have a look at this mini RGB controller, I used one in a LED wash/flood light and it works great. Regards
http://www.bigclive.com/rgbcont.htm
arzoo:
--- Quote from: Nephasth on April 29, 2012, 11:52:51 am ---1) LEDBlinky can recognize which inputs are cabinet lighting, I just wish it could run cabinet lighting animations independantly like you're wanting to do.
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Just to clarify Nephasth here – LEDBlinky can run a single independent animation for cabinet lighting. All cabinet LEDs must be wired to their own LED controller(s). But it cannot run different cabinet animations for different events (FE Active, Game Start, etc.) - this is a requested feature.
Nephasth:
Thanks, arzoo. I forgot about that until Santoro posted the link to that thread. Still would LOVE to see different animations/colors based on events, but I'm sure that's quite the hurdle.
Santoro:
OK I think I understand. So if I decide that it is worth buying another LED-Wiz for it, I can have choose a single animation to run on the cabinet lighting all the time.
There is no cheaper alternative to the LED Wiz for this limited use, eh? That stinks, but I get that this is a pretty small niche market.
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