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Power Light
Hello all!
I know this may seem trivial but I'm struggling to think of a logical way to wire in a power light into our 24v system?
My thoughts so far are...
LED's run at 5v, so I should get a BEC on both speed controllers, use one for the receiver and the other to power the on light.
There must be a better way than this!
Any ideas?
Also does anyone post their wiring schematics on this forum?
Cheers,
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Re: Power Light
Buy a 24V LED? :P
http://www.technobotsonline.com/opto-el ... ators.html
EDIT: It's not a proper schematic, more so a bit of a crude Appleworks drawing, but this is the wiring diagram for the old Drumroll:
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3.../dr_wiring.jpg
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Yeh a 24v LED would do it! Shame about the bag of 5v LED's I have............
Cheers for the drawing, just wanted to check I wasn't missing something vital!
Is there anything in the rules that say you can't earth against the metal frame of your robot, a bit like wiring up a car?
Thanks,
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Re: Power Light
use a resistor on the led's you have? i just tried a 2.2k resistor with a 1-5V led on 28.4v and worked fine
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Re: Power Light
In parallel or series? I can see it getting very hot!
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Re: Power Light
Cheers,
Could I make my own link? The rules on this seem kinda vague. Could I do it with say, a break in the series connection between batteries that is linked with a short piece of wire connected by (sturdy!) terminals?
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you could make your own but its much easier to just buy one.. there not to expensive. You could just use a fuse and a fuse holder,
or buy an anderson / deans / power pole etc.
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Fuse and Fuse Holder! Thats a great idea!