Having some noob trouble with a sketch, and an arduino uno, i'm sure anybody with more knowledge than me could help.
add me on skype, gabe.spound2
Having some noob trouble with a sketch, and an arduino uno, i'm sure anybody with more knowledge than me could help.
add me on skype, gabe.spound2
Here is some videos I created a while back for some projects I was working on, look at blog entry 8, 9 and 10
Peter
BTW, Bad form to mark your own answer as the correct one, especially when you dont know why it worked?, there are many folks that have provided "Helpfull" Answers and possibly "Correct" Ones too!, please give them some credit
Now to the isue at hand
The reason it may work at 3v3 is that less power is being drawn through the relay and by inference, the Arduino output pin, with the appropriate intermediate driver it wont matter if it is 3v3 or 5V
The videos I linked in earlier should help explain that
Peter
Hi Peter,
If my interpretation of his Fritzing layout was correct the relay was getting its power from the Pin 2 of the Arduino being written HIGH. This would still be a load on the 5 volt power to the uP. Changing the power to the bread board to 3V3 only affected the microphone and LED voltage supply. I do believe it better isolated A0 from the spike that the relay coil had to be creating on the 5 volt rail.
As far as the self pat on the back I suspect he just didn't know how things work on the E14 site. A new person is hit with a lot of new stuff to deal with. Fact is he took a bit of negativity and just continued to try to supply the information requested in a positive manner. I say welcome to Gabriel and I hope he sticks around and contributes to the site.
John
you may well be correct there, I was only going from the email part of the description and did not look at the schamatic, either way the Arduino should not be driving a relay directly, not at any voltage