Light effect controllers ( 56 ) :
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Light bulb flashers
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220 Volts Flashing Lamps - Especially designed for
Christmas tree lamps to replace old thermally-activated
switches
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230V AC light flasher - flashes one light bulb at
adjustable speed, in pdf format, text in Finnish
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Aircraft Light Flasher Extends Bulb Life - unusual
dual-lamp flasher eliminates high-inrush currents by using one
bulb's heated filament to limit the starting current for the
other bulb
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Power Flasher - 220V AC light will flash at around 1Hz
with a 100W bulb at a duty cycle of 50%
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Solid-state flasher has short-circuit protection -
switches an inductive or resistive grounded load using a
bootstrapped n-channel power MOSFET and features
short-circuit, reverse-polarity, and
transient-input-voltage-spike protection, operates from 18 to
30V DC, and the circuit can handle as much as approximately
10A with proper heat sinking of the FET
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The simplest blinker - very simple circuit which flashes a
neon glow lamp from mains voltage
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Zero Crossing AC Switch Oscillator - The circuit shown
will switch on and off a resistive or inductive 220 VAC load
up to 800VA with the possibility to adjust both the on and off
period
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Sound to light circuits
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Light organs
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12-V-Lichtorgel - This circuit flashes 12V 20W halogen
bulb with the music. This circuit uses a microphone to pick
the music. The text of this circuit is in German.
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Audio-To-Light Modulator - Introduces the
Optocoupler-triac MOC3010 and triac. Complete electrical
isolation between input audio signal (low voltage circuit)
and output light modulation (mains supply voltage levels) is
achieved.
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Color Organ - make different colored bulbs light at
different frequencies of music, connects to speaker outputs
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Colour (Sound) Organ - makes 3 lights to blink and flash
to music
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Diskovalo halogeenilampulla ja/tai ledirypp�ll� -
Light organ circuit which operates from 12V DC. The
description of this circuit is in Finnish.
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Light organ for car - flashes 3 low voltage lights,
operates at 10-25V voltage, in pdf format, text in Finnish
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Modulateur 220 Volts - simple one channel light organ
for 220V AC
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Music to Light Modulator with Opto-Coupler - flashes one
110-250V AC lamp on the beat of music with 2.5V musig signal
input, kit from
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Plans for a 4 channel color organ - 4 multiple feedback
filters running it into a comparator with a 60Hz ramp wave
to control triac lamp dimmers, reacts to sub bass, high
bass, mid and treble frequency components
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Simple Colour Organ - one lamp colour organ
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Velleman MK110 Simple One Channel Light Organ - This kit
modulates a lamp according to the music signal at the input.
Loudspeaker dignal input is optically isolated from mains
output. This is a documentation of Velleman kit.
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Syncing lights to music beat
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Other sound to light circuits
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Disco VU effect - light a big sound level meter, uses a
LM3914 bargraph display driver, together with an automatic
level control, 10 channels, 250W per channel, uses control
at zero-crossing
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Sequencers
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10 stage light sequencer - flashes 10 low voltage bulbs,
operatesat 10-25V voltage, in pdf format, text in Finnish
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12 Stage Neon Sequencer (NE-2 / NE-51) - uses small power
70V neon bulbs
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Christmas Lights Flasher - originally published in ETI,
December 1994
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Dynamic Lights - christmast light sequencer circuit based
on PIC 12C508 microcontroller, can 5 channels and loads up to
1000W at 220V voltage
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Flashing Neons (NE-2 / NE-51) - one, two or three neon
indicator bulbs can be made to flash in sequence
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Interesting Sequential Neon Flasher
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Light Sequenced Candelabra - This circuit, controlled by a
microcontroller, makes the lights on the candelabra/chandelier
turn on one at a time when power is applied. There is a switch
on the circuit board that allows you to have it go through the
turn-on sequence and then all stay on or wait about 20 seconds
and turn all the lights off and start the sequence again and
repeat. It can handle up to five lights, 60W or below.
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LX-800 LIGHTING SYSTEM - inexpensive 8 channel lighting
controller for small theatre groups or musicians, includer
dimming and sequencer, sound to light, designed for 240VAC
50Hz supply, fed domestically from 3-pin 16A sockets
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Simple 10 Stage Control Box - simple 10 channel light
sequencer circuit with relay output, can be easily adapted for
any number of bulbs from 1 to 10, instructions for those
adaptations included
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Special Effects From A "Six-Pack" - Four channel Sequencer
to Analog Dimemrs and idea how to couple relay to the circuit
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Tehojono - circuit sequences 10 DC lamps using 10A fets,
text in Finnish, pdf file
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Trafic Light Controller - controls on 3 LED traffic light
sequence
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Traffic Light Control Circuit (74145) - This page features
a very basic traffic light circuit that is built around the
TTL family 74145 - 1 of 10 Decoder. The circuit is designed to
drive light emitting diodes that are connected in a common
anode arrangement.
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Computer interfacing
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Chaser Controller - 8 channel christmas light controller
which can be used with WinAmp visualization plugin from PC,
each channel can be either turned on or off depending on the
beat of the music
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Christmas light chaser controller - 8 channel christmas
light controller based on PIC 16F84 and connected to PC serial
port, controlled with Winamp plugin
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DiscoLitez - software and hardware for controlling disco
lights from your PC
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K Light Controller Project - multichannel light dimmer
system controlld by Linux computer, progressing project pages
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Light Computer's World - describes a project which uses
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MIDI controlled switches - can drive up to 128 individual
relais, solenoids, motors, etc. with a MIDI note-on and
note-off messages
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Multimedia Electronic Crib - microcontroller based light
controller which generates sequence of day-night with light
fading, optional serial control interface, based on 87C51
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Parallel Port Central - information on using PC parallel
port for I/O and Windows drivers for that, useful for your own
circuit interfacing
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Parallel Port PC Relay Board with 8 Relays - 8 relays each
capable of switching 12VDC/10A or 240VAC/5A, each relay has an
LED to indicate when it is operated, kit from
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PC based lighting control - short pointer to each of the
available commercial PC based lighting console systems
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PC Parallel Port Relay Board - Do you have an old PC lying
around the house which absolutely no one wants? Then you can
convert it into a dedicated controller. Communicate with the
real world via the parallel printer port on your PC. Simply
connect printer cable from your computer to the connector on
relay board. There are 8 relays each capable of switching
12VDC/10A or 240VAC/5A.
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PC Serial Port Receiver - designed to control a 32 channel
Christmas light show from the PC serial port
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Planet Christmas - information on large computerized
homebuilt Christmas light system
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Semiconductor Relay Circuit - and how to drive them from
PC parallel port
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Serial Isolated I/O Module - 8-Relay Module (mains rated -
to 250VAC), kit K108 from
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Simple circuit and program to show how to use PC parallel port
output capabilities - includes instructions how to connect
a relay to PC parallel port
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Switched Relay Board for 5/10A Relay - switches on the
relay when input voltage reaches 2.5V, suitable for
interfacing to PC parallel port, kit from
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Velleman Universal Relay Card with 16 Relays - This page
has information on Vellan kit which take computer input and
controls up to 16 relays. This page has full kit documentation
including the circuit diagram.
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Controllers for professional lighting
equipments
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