flashing LED light tutorial for the F1

[qatmix]

Had a little time on my hands so made a led set for my F109. So made a quick tutorial on making a cheap flashing led for a F1

http://thercracer.blogspot.com/2010/...-tutorial.html

[tymill]

neat. would be really cool to somehow wire it up such that it shines when braking - like a real brake light.

[Battle_axe]

Originally Posted by tymill

neat. would be really cool to somehow wire it up such that it shines when braking - like a real brake light.

you could but you would have to use a pic micro controler to do read the signal from the reciver to make it work

[qatmix]

Yeah, I'm working on a tutorial for one of those as well..

[Battle_axe]

Originally Posted by qatmix

Yeah, I'm working on a tutorial for one of those as well..

cool if you need any help i will see what i can do

[Mad-Wolfie]

Originally Posted by Battle_axe

you could but you would have to use a pic micro controler to do read the signal from the reciver to make it work

not neccesarily.. you make it as a capacitor based circuit so the brake lights / LED's comes on as the capacitor is discharging, while the motor gets power it will keep charging the capacitor but as soon the power is cut the cap will discharge.

I made one for a college project, but it's a good while since i left college & the circuit diagram i designed probably went the same way as the student grant! Although i designed it to work on a brushed motor by wiring across the motor terminals, however i'm sure scotch-locking motor wires (even on a brushless) would work as well

[qatmix]

Yup, I made a circuit like that for my old brushed system. However I dont know if it would work with brushless as I am sure it always supply current.

Anyone know?

[DCM]

you would need to split the signal from the receiver to the esc, so you can pickup the throttle position.