Hi ALL!
I have to design an automatic lunar emulation lamp. There is some LEDs based lamp that has to be automatically switched On every day at midnight and switched Off at midday. The lunar cycle is 28 days, and the lights output should daily increase from 1 day to 13 day and decrease from 14 day to 28 day. The controller and LEDs lamp power supply should be separated because the LEDs lamp power supply (20W) may be interrupted, but lunar cycle must go on continuously at least several years without interruptions.
Therefore I thought to use some battery powered micropower microcontroller with PWM output in order to dim the LEDs lamp through some powerful MOSFET or bipolar transistor.
The problem is that I have zero experience in microcontrollers programming. Therefore the question is: may I avoid microcontroller usage in this project, are there any alternatives? If I cannot, what microcontroller and suitable tools (I mean compiler, debugger, emulator etc..) do you advice for this application?
Thanks for help!
I have to design an automatic lunar emulation lamp. There is some LEDs based lamp that has to be automatically switched On every day at midnight and switched Off at midday. The lunar cycle is 28 days, and the lights output should daily increase from 1 day to 13 day and decrease from 14 day to 28 day. The controller and LEDs lamp power supply should be separated because the LEDs lamp power supply (20W) may be interrupted, but lunar cycle must go on continuously at least several years without interruptions.
Therefore I thought to use some battery powered micropower microcontroller with PWM output in order to dim the LEDs lamp through some powerful MOSFET or bipolar transistor.
The problem is that I have zero experience in microcontrollers programming. Therefore the question is: may I avoid microcontroller usage in this project, are there any alternatives? If I cannot, what microcontroller and suitable tools (I mean compiler, debugger, emulator etc..) do you advice for this application?
Thanks for help!