mammanoti
New Member
This is the situation:
I have been 'collecting' controllers from christmas lights, some the sequence and others the do that and fades in/out. Up until now I would just wire the controller to the plugs and thus have 4 individual flashing/fading strings. The problem arrises when I add a third string of lights to a 'channel' it overloads the circuit and then the ending result is a steady on (and a very warm controller).
The plan: :idea:
I want to wire the controllers inside a box of portable outlets instead. After searching the net I found www.christmascave.com. This guys uses SSRs to do this. This works very well for sequencers, but doesn't work for fading effects. I think SCRs would work but I am not sure. I want to be able to just plug in 'whatever I want' to control.
If you have ideas or schematics (120v in America) I would appreciate.
Note: Yeah I know it can be done with a Micro, but I haven't gone there yet. :lol:
I have been 'collecting' controllers from christmas lights, some the sequence and others the do that and fades in/out. Up until now I would just wire the controller to the plugs and thus have 4 individual flashing/fading strings. The problem arrises when I add a third string of lights to a 'channel' it overloads the circuit and then the ending result is a steady on (and a very warm controller).
The plan: :idea:
I want to wire the controllers inside a box of portable outlets instead. After searching the net I found www.christmascave.com. This guys uses SSRs to do this. This works very well for sequencers, but doesn't work for fading effects. I think SCRs would work but I am not sure. I want to be able to just plug in 'whatever I want' to control.
If you have ideas or schematics (120v in America) I would appreciate.
Note: Yeah I know it can be done with a Micro, but I haven't gone there yet. :lol: