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- From: schuch@phx.mcd.mot.com (John Schuch)
- Subject: Re: chaser lights
- Message-ID: <1992Nov4.144752.10551@phx.mcd.mot.com>
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- Organization: Motorola Computer Group, Tempe, Az.
- References: <1992Oct30.194327.841@phx.mcd.mot.com> <lf5mpgINN9s9@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM>
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- Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 14:47:52 GMT
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- In article <lf5mpgINN9s9@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> bender@oobleck.eng.sun.com writes:
- >schuch@phx.mcd.mot.com (John Schuch) writes:
- >: In article <1992Oct22.143703.6299@sactoh0.sac.ca.us> jhp@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Jim H. Puga) writes:
- >: >I understand I missed an article about how to build chaser lights.
- >:
- >: Build an oscillator with an LM555, connect to output to a 7493
- >: TTL binary counter, connect the BCD output to a 74154 TTL BCD to
- >: 1 of 16 decoder, connect the outputs of the 74154 to solid state
- >: relays starting with output 1, connect the first unused output
- >: from the 74154 to the reset input of the 7493.
- >
- >--> John Schuch at Motorola Computer Group, Tempe, Az.
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >
- >John, I'm surprised that you didn't suggest using one of Mot's great
- >microcontrollers. Jim would have had a simpler hardware solution (XTAL,
- >uC, SS relays) as well as learned how to program one of your 68XX family.
- >mike
-
- Well, meaning no offense to the original poster, I presumed that if one
- was asking how to build a chase light system, one probably is not ready
- for a dedicated microcontroller hardware/software project which would
- require a pretty broad range of disciplines. The TTL based circuit I
- mentioned is straight-forward in design, easy to understand, hard to
- screw up, and is one of the first things I ever built (many moons ago).
-
- BUT! since you asked.... :-)
-
- Any of the 68705 parts would do a great job. You could use the A/D
- inputs to build a color organ / chase light; you could use all of\
- the excess I/O to turn it on at dusk, off at dawn, lots of options
- here. The serial port would allow remote control from a PC, or report
- lamp failure back to the PC ( using the A/D to measure the current
- through the light strings ). With all of the excess processing
- capacity left over, might as well hang a tone generator off one
- of the ports and play Christmas Carols.
-
- Then again, the TTL circuit costs about $5.00, and can be built in
- a few hours by a newcommer to the field.
-
- John
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