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- Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:37 pm
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: Power source UK vs US
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7046
- Fri Jan 11, 2013 6:53 pm
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: Clyde "En'til'Zog" Jones has passed away
- Replies: 28
- Views: 97144
- Wed Dec 05, 2012 6:01 pm
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: How to get started with lighting
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5162
Have a look at my web site, www.madmanlighting.com in the Downloads section. There you will find all the instructions for my kits which will explain the basics of installing LEDs and fiber optic lighting. You can also look at my YouTube channel that shows how some of the installation is done, but mo...
- Tue Nov 20, 2012 9:06 pm
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: starfury lighting help....
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7861
Sounds like you're doing it right. 6V DC, one resistor per LED so that any failures only take out one LED. That will give best current regulation to the LEDs. One thing you should be doing is using LESS than 20mA for your LEDs to improve reliability. I use 18mA for all my stuff. The difference in br...
- Sun Sep 16, 2012 8:22 pm
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: Madman Lighting Kits
- Replies: 101
- Views: 376224
- Wed Aug 29, 2012 4:51 pm
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: Madman Lighting Kits
- Replies: 101
- Views: 376224
- Tue Aug 07, 2012 7:55 pm
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: Madman Lighting Kits
- Replies: 101
- Views: 376224
I can do better than that! I found a YouTube vid that explains exactly how to wire-wrap, using the Radio Shack tool.
Here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SSOKppwpAE
This isn't me, but he's good. He's even got my slightly nasal geeky voice!
Here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SSOKppwpAE
This isn't me, but he's good. He's even got my slightly nasal geeky voice!
- Sat Aug 04, 2012 10:10 am
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: Is this a good power adapter?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8944
Hi Jim, Well, that power supply should work very well for your project. It is indeed an older style linear regulator that will produce 6VDC and will do so up to a 500mA load. More than enough for LEDs. A typical LED will draw only 20mA so this supply can power about 20 LEDs connected in parallel. (I...
- Sun Jun 24, 2012 1:46 pm
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: Lighting kit for 1/350 Enterprise?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5471
- Wed May 02, 2012 5:41 pm
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: Madman Lighting Kits
- Replies: 101
- Views: 376224
- Sun Mar 25, 2012 7:45 am
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: Whats the best fiber optic thickness for star destroyer
- Replies: 6
- Views: 14416
- Sun Mar 25, 2012 7:43 am
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: a good reliable sourse for lights and fiber optic strands
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3058
- Tue Mar 20, 2012 8:17 pm
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: Madman Lighting Kits
- Replies: 101
- Views: 376224
- Mon Mar 19, 2012 5:27 pm
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: Madman Lighting Kits
- Replies: 101
- Views: 376224
- Sun Mar 18, 2012 9:01 pm
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: Beginner Lighting Guide
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9764
Well allow me to toot my horn as well Tom! Madman Lighting offers over a dozen kits based on our easy to use pre-assembled Delux-24 LED controller card. Here: www.madmanlighting.com and here: www.youtube.com\MadmanLighting Yes, we ship to the UK. Heck, I'll ship to Mars if someone can tell me how an...
- Sat Mar 03, 2012 3:11 pm
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: Madman Lighting Kits
- Replies: 101
- Views: 376224
- Thu Mar 01, 2012 6:17 pm
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: 1st Arduino Project
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6527
Hey John, Neat little project there. Damn, I remember my first little micro project, it was with an MIT HandyBoard (I never went to MIT). I got it because a couple of guys had greenboards of the unit made and someone else got all the parts into a big kit. Then I soldered it all together myself. I ha...
- Wed Feb 01, 2012 7:08 pm
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: Advice on making sound-activated lighting circuit
- Replies: 7
- Views: 13179
- Sun Jan 29, 2012 7:48 pm
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: Remote Controlled Model Lighting
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8787
I forget where but someone posted complete code for decoding a Phillips IR command set with a PIC micro a while back. One day I want to add this feature to my controller cards but the timing is tricky, esp since I'd be porting it to a different micro than the one the author used. Still, it would be ...
- Tue Jan 10, 2012 5:37 pm
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: Madman Lighting Kits
- Replies: 101
- Views: 376224
Glad you like my kit. Yes, you can add more LEDs, no problem. Those are 20mA, 100 degree, viewing angle 1000 mcd blue LEDs. To add more you would create longer, series strings of them, and you would need a higher voltage power supply. This kit drives two strings of 3 LEDs but you can double that to ...
- Mon Dec 26, 2011 9:54 pm
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: Madman Lighting Kits
- Replies: 101
- Views: 376224
Updates are coming! At last I have time to fixup my website and get all the new instructions put up there, as well as post the new kits I've produced. For those not following, earlier this year I redesigned my controller card to drive 2X as many LEDs and overhauled my product line. Ye GADS what a pr...
- Mon Dec 26, 2011 9:48 pm
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: Warm White LED Question
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11882
- Mon Dec 26, 2011 9:45 pm
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: Planning a project-To Arduino an Enterprise-C
- Replies: 22
- Views: 27233
I agree with putting all the power handling into a set of external MOSFETs or other similar devices. Have a look at the 2N7002 MOSFET. Its small, can be driven by microcontroller logic levels, and its cheap. I really driven person would invent a constant current regulator circuit to drive long strin...
- Mon Dec 05, 2011 6:59 pm
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: New! Light Packs from Modeler's Brand
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13360
- Fri Dec 02, 2011 6:35 pm
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: Microcontroller Projects
- Replies: 53
- Views: 174508
- Fri Nov 04, 2011 11:49 am
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: Madman Lighting Kits
- Replies: 101
- Views: 376224
- Wed Nov 02, 2011 11:15 am
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: Madman Lighting Kits
- Replies: 101
- Views: 376224
To my valued customers: Madman Lighting has been hit by the October Noreaster snowstorm and has been without power for 4 days. We apologize to those waiting for projects and will try to be back up again as soon as a large oak tree is removed from our power lines. We expect this to happen sometime wi...
- Sat Oct 29, 2011 11:33 am
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: Madman Lighting Kits
- Replies: 101
- Views: 376224
Well.... You certainly can use the PS1212 for this project. Lemme see here, that one is rated at 1.2Ah and one of my cards uses about 0.1A of current. That means you could power one of my cards for 1.2 / 0.1 = 12 hours on a single charge. More than enough I would say. FYI: those are heavy lead-acid ...
- Thu Oct 27, 2011 6:33 pm
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: Madman Lighting Kits
- Replies: 101
- Views: 376224
- Wed Oct 19, 2011 5:33 pm
- Forum: Lighting & Electronics
- Topic: Madman Lighting Kits
- Replies: 101
- Views: 376224