Hi
I have made an under water camera housing for my camcorder and it works really well, however I need to solder 2 additional things to it to make it work exactly as needed. The first thing is an additional switch (a reset switch from an old PC case) which I soldered across the record button, and it works fine.
The next thing is that I need to be able to tell if it's recording as I have no way of telling (the side LCD has the only indicator which is the words REC and a red dot which appear when recording, very standard..)
So what I'd like to do is to solder an LED across the motor (is this possible?) so that when the mini tape is being recorded to and the motor is turning the LED lights up and I can see it.
I know that motors will vary from camera to camera so I'm not looking for detailed info for my particular camera, I'm just worried that it may cause the voltage to drop to the motor or something like that.
Am I barking up the wrong tree here?
Any input would be appreciated.
Thanks
I have made an under water camera housing for my camcorder and it works really well, however I need to solder 2 additional things to it to make it work exactly as needed. The first thing is an additional switch (a reset switch from an old PC case) which I soldered across the record button, and it works fine.
The next thing is that I need to be able to tell if it's recording as I have no way of telling (the side LCD has the only indicator which is the words REC and a red dot which appear when recording, very standard..)
So what I'd like to do is to solder an LED across the motor (is this possible?) so that when the mini tape is being recorded to and the motor is turning the LED lights up and I can see it.
I know that motors will vary from camera to camera so I'm not looking for detailed info for my particular camera, I'm just worried that it may cause the voltage to drop to the motor or something like that.
Am I barking up the wrong tree here?
Any input would be appreciated.
Thanks