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e14 Contributor over 12 years ago

Hello there.

 

So I got my self a Arduino uno starter kit, sins i have wanted to get in to electronics forever,

and I have started to hack stuff like u are suppose to, but now I got some problems that I

don't know how to solve.

 

I have narrowed it down to this circuit, I got a Piezo to create some noise and a LED where the brightness is controlled

by analogWrite. The problem is, that the diode only make a few  blinks or don't emit light at all, but 

when i comment out the Piezo code, the led is working as expected.

 

I sorry for my crude circuit drawing skills image

 

image

 

const int ledPin     = 11;
const int speakerPin = 4;

int ledBrigthness = 250;
int pitch = 50;

void setup() {
  pinMode(ledPin,  OUTPUT);
  pinMode(speakerPin, OUTPUT);
  Serial.begin(9600);
}
void loop() {
  setBrightness();
  setPitch();
}
void setBrightness() {
  analogWrite(ledPin, ledBrigthness);
}
void setPitch () {
  tone(speakerPin, pitch, 1000);
}
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    0 Robert Peter Oakes over 12 years ago

    Any diagram is better than no diagram so dont feel bad about it, you would be amazed how many people cant even do that...  thanks

     

    you dont need to call set tone and set brightness every time through the loop, only call if the value changes, it should not affect you here, its just not necessary

     

    without looking deeper, pin 4 does not seem to support PWM, try pin 3, 5 or 6 instead, im not sure what behaviour you will get but it may be an issue

     

    i will try this later on my uno, for now put a delay in your loop and let me know what happens

    void loop() {

      setBrightness();

      setPitch();

    delay(2000);

    }

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    0 e14 Contributor over 12 years ago in reply to Robert Peter Oakes

    Hi thanks for the reply,

     

    I changed the pin for the piezo to 5 with the ~ symbol, and put in a delay of 2000 ms at the end in the loop,

    the light did still not work.

    A clue maby:
    when I set the ledBrigthness to 255 it works, or if i change the analogWrite to digitalWrite(HIGH);

     

    maybe analogWrite(pin, 255) is the same as digitalWrite(HIGH).. dont know image
    could the internal timer get messed up by the tone funktion making the PWM stuff not work with the LED..
    I'm just guessing image

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    0 Robert Peter Oakes over 12 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

    look at my second response, I think that will fix it for you

     

    Peter

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    0 e14 Contributor over 12 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

    Awesome thanks image

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