{"id":309,"date":"2012-03-30T07:19:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T15:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/?p=309"},"modified":"2012-03-30T07:19:37","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T15:19:37","slug":"driving-lamps-and-other-high-draw-devices-with-an-arduino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"Driving lamps and other high-draw devices with an Arduino&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, the video!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o7tJaJJbRkc\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o7tJaJJbRkc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A regular Arduino really drive things that have high power requirements or need a voltage higher than 5vdc. In order to run the real displays in the F-15 that use incandescent bulbs, I developed a special board that would allow me to drive up to 16 channels per board, up to 60vdc at round 8A per board.<\/p>\n<p>The Centipede Shield by Macetech provides 64 I\/O channels &#8211; each of the 64 channels can be configured for input or output. In this context however, I&#8217;m using the board as strictly an output device.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the code that the Arduino runs: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/centipede_firmware.txt\">centipede_firmware<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For those that want to build the driver board, I&#8217;ve zipped up the Eagle PCB files for the board &#8211; the zip file INSIDE the zip file is &#8220;gerber&#8221; data that you need to supply to the board house if they don&#8217;t natively process Eagle PCB files.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/TIP125-Board-v2.7z\">TIP125-Board-v2<\/a><br \/>\nEnjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, the video! httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o7tJaJJbRkc A regular Arduino really drive things that have high power requirements or need a voltage higher than 5vdc. In order to run the real displays in the F-15 that use incandescent bulbs, I developed a special board that would allow me to drive up to 16 channels per board, up to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diycockpit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317,"href":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}