Relay and a switch to undo
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Topic: Relay and a switch to undo
Posted By: BumpNGlow
Subject: Relay and a switch to undo
Date Posted: March 24, 2003 at 7:42 PM
Ok, well I found a diagram on how to hook up a few lights in my car to do a cool effect. I'll try and explain, but it may be kind of hard. I have a StreetGlow Music Interface Controller that sends out a pulse ground when it hears sound. This causes the effect that the neons are blinking to the music. The diagram I found was to create this in a 2 channel effect so that when the Interface hears the sound, 1 channel gets the ground, but when it doesn't hear a sound, the 2nd channel gets the ground. (https://www.suslow.com/neon/relay.html) My question is, how can I put a switch in here (anywhere) so that when I hit the switch, it ignores the relay and everything is channel 1 (when there is sound, there is ground -- hehe, I'm a poet). I would really like to do this with a simple one way switch so it matches the other switches in my switch panel, but I can put any type of switch if its my only option. Thank you experts!
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Posted By: BumpNGlow
Date Posted: March 25, 2003 at 9:43 PM
nevermind! I made myself sit down and think it out. I figured it out. 1 swtich too :D! I will just make a switch coming from a ground so that when I flick it all neons get a constant ground thus causing them not to blink to the music.
Posted By: cpgoose
Date Posted: March 26, 2003 at 7:48 AM
hey, do your neons have a switch that allows you to turn the blinking on/off....or is this what your talking about? I have 2 neons under the dash and they both have a switch on them to blink to the music, or to just stay lit. They also have a dial to adjust when they blink to the music. I was curious to know if there's a way to control both of the neons with one switch (turn dial) on the dash.
Posted By: BumpNGlow
Date Posted: March 26, 2003 at 2:50 PM
cpgoose wrote:
hey, do your neons have a switch that allows you to turn the blinking on/off....or is this what your talking about? I have 2 neons under the dash and they both have a switch on them to blink to the music, or to just stay lit. They also have a dial to adjust when they blink to the music. I was curious to know if there's a way to control both of the neons with one switch (turn dial) on the dash.
https://www.streetglow.com/site/auto6.htm Music Interface by StreetGlow is what I have. It works awesome! And there is a way to open up your neons and hooking up both to just one dial but I don't recommend you do it unless you are willing to sacrifice them to the experiment gods. :D!
Posted By: djfearny2
Date Posted: March 26, 2003 at 3:04 PM
well the easiest way to do it is simple your relay has to have power right . so as long as the first configuration for normal on the lights is set up between pin87a and pin 30 if you put a small toggle on the possitive wire going to relay it will shut off relay and then leaving it at normal operation.,
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Posted By: MCubed45
Date Posted: April 03, 2003 at 7:11 PM
depending on the relay, i would think the clicking would get irritating... but i guess it'd depend on how loud the music is too. i have that unit and it's pretty cool.. is the limit on the output really 6 amps like it says on that other site? i never really looked into how much it could handle. i've got one neon and a bunch've LED's tapped into it and it's pretty nice. 6amps is kinda lot of current for lights actually. light's dont usually draw that much...
Posted By: BumpNGlow
Date Posted: April 03, 2003 at 10:19 PM
its rated for 16 neon tubes... I figure they estimated safe. If you are worried about adding too many lights just use a relay :D!
Posted By: MCubed45
Date Posted: April 03, 2003 at 10:50 PM
yea i know it says 16 tubes on the box, but i'm using a bunch've LED's instead. *shrugs* i doubt the LED's draw more than the tubes anyways. but then i might add an underbody kit later so that's a couple more tubes.
Posted By: BumpNGlow
Date Posted: April 16, 2003 at 4:50 PM
LEDs drain lots less than a tube, and if you want to hook a ub up to the MI, the trick is to just run the ground from the UB to the MI. Put the power wire on a seperate switch so you can control if its on or not completely seperate from the MI. www.cmeglow.com is run by a friend of mine and he has the diagrams you'd want to see for that.
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