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Inground RGB LED spotlights

Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 11:21 pm
by Digit
Hi all you LED & DMX fans,
I've been doing some experimenting with RGB LED spotlights, DMX and Arduino lately. Right now I'm able to control a bunch of RGB LED spotlights over Ethernet with relatively little effort; the Arduino part of it has been stable since I started using it so that's a big relief, but getting the LEDs to produce the right colors is something I have to work on by doing some more research before I can install the LEDs where they belong...
Here's the complete story: http://blog.hekkers.net/tag/dmx/

Re: Inground RGB LED spotlights

Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 12:14 am
by Post-IT
Nice setup!

I don't have much time and patience to work on Arduino things, so I choose an Xdimmer-3HP which I will be controlling through the new LanBox-LCP which hopefully be available next week. So for now I use my IRtrans to control the Xdimmer-3.

If I would have a garden I would probably buy the CLS CAS3 RGB flood spots which Romar has on sale (see http://www.domoticaforum.eu/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=6605). So my setup is for inside.

Re: Inground RGB LED spotlights

Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 11:03 am
by r_255
Nice project,

are you digging them in or place them in a tile ?

Re: Inground RGB LED spotlights

Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 11:58 am
by Digit
In the ground, so we won't trip over ;)

Re: Inground RGB LED spotlights

Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2011 11:54 pm
by Digit
Update:
I made some progress today; the weather was too good to stay inside, so I did some tests in the garden this evening.
I had a really nasty issue with controlling the LEDs though, but nothing that can't be solved.
However, the looks are really good if I my say so... 8)
http://blog.hekkers.net/2011/09/03/success-and-failure/