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And since the signal will be flashing on and off, you have to determine what the maximum 'off' time is before you can decide that the indication is actually stopped.Have been working through this for a while now and am still finding some issues, so I was hoping a post might be able to shed some light on the problems I've been having. The reason it works this way should be obvious, but you might wish to take that into account in your program - perhaps half the display lights, then 'wipes off' in the direction indicated before it proceeds with whatever other pattern. Note that turn indicators - flashers - always work that the moment the switch is closed, the light starts by being on then turns off after a delay and so on. So given that you still have lights visible at least at the front and this is only in addition to the normal indicators, you feed power continuously from the ignition circuit and sense each of the left and right turn signals, and the stop signal, with separate lines via the voltage dividers mentioned. The only question I have is how will I separate left and right turn? It is 2 wires coming off the turn signal switch, can I hook up a left wire to a terminal and have it run the left program and the right wire to another terminal for the right signal program? How does it work? I was going to comment on that, but others have done it to death. The other aspect is that you probably just want the 5V regulator to be fed power whenever the ignition is on, so it can do its job properly, not switched on and off as you might do by having diodes feeding it from each of the signal circuits (including stop) that might be implemented. I am not sure whether you proposed 'bypassing' the flasher entirely - which would be a problem if you still need to have lights visible from the front - or something else. The flasher only flashes when it has the current from the lamps passing through it. In general, indicator circuits have the flasher in the power line to the turn signal switch which then switches it to either left or right indicators.

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What you do want instead is a Pro Mini and a USB-TTL converter as you only use that for (re-)programming and disconnect it after. So you do not need a Nano and a USB-TTL converter as the Nano has USB built in.

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Plus the USB>serial cable which I assume it's for loading the code from computer to board?Īnd something like this for the 12>5vdc converter? The only question I have is how will I seperate left and right turn? It is 2 wires coming off the turn signal switch, can I hook up a left wire to a terminal and have it run the left program and the right wire to another terminal for the right signal program? How does it work? If I'm using the board I can bypass the flasher relays and go from the turn signal switch to the 5vdc converter to the board.įor now I just want to do the turn signals. Just getting together what components I need. Those aren't the EXACT products in going to buy. So it will only have about 30 lights at the very most. The strip will only be about 12 inches long at most.

Have you thought how you will pick up the signals from the turn indicators on the bike? Did you want to use the strip as a stop/brake light also? And as a reversing light (I know nothing about bikes. How long/how many leds were you going to use on the bike's strip? That DC converter will be able to run a strip of around 40~45 leds, plus the Nano.

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