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Clever electronic people - How to make Drag tree lights?
Post by Ammo » Mon Sep 02, 2013 11:33 pm
Basically we need the lights you have a Santa pod before you go off on the 1/4 mile
Don't need the staging part, just need to press a button and the lights go from red, yellow, green, seems you can't actually buy anything off the shelf, and even more so we need it to be 12v to run off a battery
Thinking you clever people might be able to work it out with timers etc, then i can solder it up
Don't need the staging part, just need to press a button and the lights go from red, yellow, green, seems you can't actually buy anything off the shelf, and even more so we need it to be 12v to run off a battery
Thinking you clever people might be able to work it out with timers etc, then i can solder it up
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Post by Fons[DutchGuy] » Mon Sep 02, 2013 11:53 pm
Your dad handing out free microcontrollers?Gayno wrote:My dad programs micro controllers, and probably already has something to do the job you're after.
I'm guessing you're after something relatively cheap/free though?

No just kidding
Shouldn't be to hard to make. I'll draw something up for you, post it up here tomorrow than you only have to buy the components and wire it up
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Post by Ammo » Mon Sep 02, 2013 11:57 pm
That would be excellent, Just need a simple press a button It goes from Red to yellow to green, needs to be 12v though, we'll use LED's for the lightsFons[DutchGuy] wrote:Your dad handing out free microcontrollers?Gayno wrote:My dad programs micro controllers, and probably already has something to do the job you're after.
I'm guessing you're after something relatively cheap/free though?![]()
No just kidding
Shouldn't be to hard to make. I'll draw something up for you, post it up here tomorrow than you only have to buy the components and wire it up
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Post by Fons[DutchGuy] » Tue Sep 03, 2013 12:09 am
NPAmmo wrote:That would be excellent, Just need a simple press a button It goes from Red to yellow to green, needs to be 12v though, we'll use LED's for the lightsFons[DutchGuy] wrote:Your dad handing out free microcontrollers?Gayno wrote:My dad programs micro controllers, and probably already has something to do the job you're after.
I'm guessing you're after something relatively cheap/free though?
No just kiddingAmmo wrote:That would be excellent, Just need a simple press a button It goes from Red to yellow to green, needs to be 12v though, we'll use LED's for the lightsFons[DutchGuy] wrote:Your dad handing out free microcontrollers?Gayno wrote:My dad programs micro controllers, and probably already has something to do the job you're after.
I'm guessing you're after something relatively cheap/free though?![]()
No just kidding
Shouldn't be to hard to make. I'll draw something up for you, post it up here tomorrow than you only have to buy the components and wire it up
Shouldn't be to hard to make. I'll draw something up for you, post it up here tomorrow than you only have to buy the components and wire it up
I don't know how much @Gayno 's dad is charging for a programmed microcontroller, chances are that it would be just a little bit priceyer than my solution but a lot easier. But I'll leave that choice up to you.
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Post by Ted » Tue Sep 03, 2013 8:10 am
not 100% on this but don't they work on random time delays too. as in it could take 2 seconds or maybe 5 seconds to go from red to green ?
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Post by Fons[DutchGuy] » Tue Sep 03, 2013 8:50 pm
Okey I drew something up.Ammo wrote:That would be excellent, Just need a simple press a button It goes from Red to yellow to green, needs to be 12v though, we'll use LED's for the lightsFons[DutchGuy] wrote:Your dad handing out free microcontrollers?Gayno wrote:My dad programs micro controllers, and probably already has something to do the job you're after.
I'm guessing you're after something relatively cheap/free though?![]()
No just kidding
Shouldn't be to hard to make. I'll draw something up for you, post it up here tomorrow than you only have to buy the components and wire it up
It will work like a drag light, Red light on next yellow after that green. All lights keep burning until you reset the button.
I thought it would be nice to use an emergency button and it will be functional as it wont use any battery power if you don't reset the button.
The links will make sense when I uploaded the drawing I made (having some issues with that at work

Here are 2 links, you'll get a 3th link when you answer the following question because I have to calculate it: Do you already have lights? If so how many watts are they or are you planning to use?
Link 1 (U need 3 of those):
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MINI-TIMER-SW ... 416ee60544
Link 2:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Telemecanique ... 2c6b8aa88d
sorry for being so fade, I'll make it clear when I'm home

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