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  • Date Created: 22 May 2015 9:12 PM Date Created
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The Genie's Day Brightens

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22 May 2015

The week was full of rain and clouds for the poor genie all week. Unable to leave his house and make any progress on the things that needed to get done, due to the unfortunate consequences of doing your electrical work in the rain, but today the sun peeked out from behind the clouds and shone with the brightness of 2000-2500 lumen. It was magnificent! However, shortly after its arrival, the clouds took over again . But while the sun was out the genie made headway on his electrical wiring of his sweet new crib. He set the power supply to roughly thirty volts and tested out his lights to see if they worked.

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And it worked! How excited the genie was! This was a huge step in the right direction with the build of his new pad. Now all that was needed to be done was wire it all up to his sweet new dimmer and you could call him Xzibit Jr.

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WAIT! There is no light!!!! What in the world is going on? No explosions, check. No fire or smoke, check. Then what? The genie checked the voltage coming out and the light intensity and found:

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But that doesn’t make sense! 30 Volts in and only a 100th of that out? How could this be? The genie has yet to figure this out, but he will be working diligently over the weekend to figure out a solution!

                                                                                   

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  • mcb1
    mcb1 over 10 years ago in reply to Jan Cumps +3
    Jan Cumps You wouldn't be the first or last to miss something in a post ... You raised a very good pint about the meter though. I wonder if someone who has a working LED can do some checking using a simple…
  • RParkerE
    RParkerE over 10 years ago in reply to mcb1 +3
    I found the culprit and it was much simpler than assumed. I had a poor connection, after I soldered the pins it worked perfectly fine. I am working on my next update now
  • Jan Cumps
    Jan Cumps over 10 years ago +2
    The week was full of rain and clouds for the poor genie all week. Unable to leave his house and make any progress on the things that needed to get done, We seem to have the opposite way of working . I…
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  • mcb1
    mcb1 over 10 years ago

    Don't forget the heatsink ....

    The frequency and shape of the output signal of the Infineon board may be too hectic for your meter.

    Yes but no light as well ...

     

    You may wish to try experimenting with a few standard leds and 10v ...rather than destroy your high power one.

     

     

    This looks like similar to my 30W RGB version, which even with a single led string at 1/3 power was enough to make you see spots for a while afterward.

    Internet of Holiday Lights RoadTest Plus (suppliment) Part 2

     

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    Jan Cumps over 10 years ago in reply to mcb1

    mcb1 wrote:

     

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    Yes but no light as well ...

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    You are right. I had missed that the Infineon board isn't connected in the bright light photo. [/must check if eyes are fully open before posting]

     

    The pointer you give to the Internet of Holiday Lights work will be a good one. There are a number of good working sketches uploaded in that design contest.

    I started with (read: blatantly stole) the one from peteroakes BYOB Party #3, Infineon Library Available.

    But any of the contenders sketches and libraries would work to get you going.

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  • Jan Cumps
    Jan Cumps over 10 years ago in reply to mcb1

    mcb1 wrote:

     

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    Yes but no light as well ...

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    You are right. I had missed that the Infineon board isn't connected in the bright light photo. [/must check if eyes are fully open before posting]

     

    The pointer you give to the Internet of Holiday Lights work will be a good one. There are a number of good working sketches uploaded in that design contest.

    I started with (read: blatantly stole) the one from peteroakes BYOB Party #3, Infineon Library Available.

    But any of the contenders sketches and libraries would work to get you going.

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  • mcb1
    mcb1 over 10 years ago in reply to Jan Cumps

    Jan Cumps

     

    You wouldn't be the first or last to miss something in a post ... image

     

    You raised a very good pint about the meter though.

    I wonder if someone who has a working LED can do some checking using a simple meter.

    I know electronic transformers for Dichroic lamps are not able to be measured easily.

     

     

    I think ipv1    Inderpreet did a different version of the library, although it might be based on Peter's work.

    [Dynamic Living-Room Lights] The Infineon RGB LED Shield -Library!

     

    Shabaz also did a writeup here RGB LED Shield from Infineon - Getting Started Guide

     

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