Hopefully I can explain this well enough for everyone to understand the situation.
Okay I'm going to be doing the lighting in my brothers house and we have decided to use 5050 SMD RGB LED light strips(5m long) each color takes about 1 amp so I am going to use a MOSFET for each color on each strand. The problem is that since these are going to be the main lighting I need as much light as possible because they are already going to be dimmer than the florescent lighting that used to be in there. Right now I'm thinking about putting PWM through shift registers, however this sounds kinda complicated and I'm worried about it getting dimmer. I will probably have at most 20 strands wired together(off of one output) and at least 10. Also I'm trying to get wiring down to a minimum number of wire because I will have to hide these wires in plain sight because the house is already finished.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I should go about controlling these, or chips that might help me out that I might have over looked, or a whole other way to go about it.
This is less related to what I'm asking but if you have suggestions on how I could do this better tell me. I am going to have a micro-controller and power supply in each room that is connected to the network from where it is sent PWM values from a server which will host some type of app(probably going to be java or something that works well with touch screens) to control all the house lighting. Also I will put touchscreens in the walls at strategic spots in place of light switches.
Thanks in advance
Okay I'm going to be doing the lighting in my brothers house and we have decided to use 5050 SMD RGB LED light strips(5m long) each color takes about 1 amp so I am going to use a MOSFET for each color on each strand. The problem is that since these are going to be the main lighting I need as much light as possible because they are already going to be dimmer than the florescent lighting that used to be in there. Right now I'm thinking about putting PWM through shift registers, however this sounds kinda complicated and I'm worried about it getting dimmer. I will probably have at most 20 strands wired together(off of one output) and at least 10. Also I'm trying to get wiring down to a minimum number of wire because I will have to hide these wires in plain sight because the house is already finished.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I should go about controlling these, or chips that might help me out that I might have over looked, or a whole other way to go about it.
This is less related to what I'm asking but if you have suggestions on how I could do this better tell me. I am going to have a micro-controller and power supply in each room that is connected to the network from where it is sent PWM values from a server which will host some type of app(probably going to be java or something that works well with touch screens) to control all the house lighting. Also I will put touchscreens in the walls at strategic spots in place of light switches.
Thanks in advance
