Hi All,
I have read a lot of posts on the site about controlling DSunY and other LED light systems using the TC420 so I know it can be done.
I currently have the PopBloom Shannon 50 led unit that has 4 channels and a small remote control. Unfortunately although you can control the lights to some extent you can fade each of the channels independently. And I assume the in-built controller isn't too smart and lacks a real-time clock, so if there is a power outage it resets itself. To compound to the problem is the 3rd channel is now stuck at 100%.
My assumption was that if I took the light apart there would be 4 obvious power channels that I could just wire into each of the channels on the TC420 and solve all the issues and allow me to fade each channel separately and have the RTC in TC420 so if there was a power outage it would remember what time of day it was.
Although I am comfortable soldering some wires and playing around with Arduinos, I am not an electrical engineer so am not sure where I should be connecting to on the LED board. Is anyone on this forum able to help?
I have attached a few photos to help.
Photo 1 - LED Pattern
Photo 2 - full board
Photo 3 - The remote and driver end of the board. I was hoping I could simply unsolder this and wire up the TC420 to here somewhere
Thanks again
I have read a lot of posts on the site about controlling DSunY and other LED light systems using the TC420 so I know it can be done.
I currently have the PopBloom Shannon 50 led unit that has 4 channels and a small remote control. Unfortunately although you can control the lights to some extent you can fade each of the channels independently. And I assume the in-built controller isn't too smart and lacks a real-time clock, so if there is a power outage it resets itself. To compound to the problem is the 3rd channel is now stuck at 100%.
My assumption was that if I took the light apart there would be 4 obvious power channels that I could just wire into each of the channels on the TC420 and solve all the issues and allow me to fade each channel separately and have the RTC in TC420 so if there was a power outage it would remember what time of day it was.
Although I am comfortable soldering some wires and playing around with Arduinos, I am not an electrical engineer so am not sure where I should be connecting to on the LED board. Is anyone on this forum able to help?
I have attached a few photos to help.
Photo 1 - LED Pattern
Photo 2 - full board
Photo 3 - The remote and driver end of the board. I was hoping I could simply unsolder this and wire up the TC420 to here somewhere
Thanks again