Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Negative voltage is bad

This one was throwing me off last night, audio was a full sine wave, three thoughts:

1. Op amps. Maybe the most professional.

2. Resistors. Pretty much move -5v to 0v. I think it compresses the range to less than 1024

3. Skip the voltage and watch the frequencies. May still need to fix negative voltages.

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

High Voltage

https://youtu.be/8yMsIz1agI8

First time with high voltage turned on.

Remove UL sticker, this is not to be repeated

Oh, there is the high voltage that just was not made to be controlled. For the love of everything sacred, make sure you break the hot lead at the relay! You have to make everything the same, and this is hard with a plug you could plug in backwards now....

Programming hardware

These are in the "do not forget" project bin for tonight

Split audio

Maybe use a pair or two in my hacked POE cable to push audio split from the FM transmitter

Close up of relay

This will be pretty nice, since everything is LED this will control....  max 16A of lights, better run a new circuit off the breaker box for this project!

Ready for basic testing

Time to get a blank sketch running that is aware of all components. Maybe I will use the SD card to hold different show programming. That would make it easier to add and edit shows.