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How to dim the chianese black box led's - rott - 05-01-2016

Here is a video I did using the camera on my phone to make the video

https://youtu.be/G6UOEl91ECY


RE: How to dim the chianese black box led's - Rob F - 05-02-2016

Cool, but you need a video showing Robo-Tank controlling it.


RE: How to dim the chianese black box led's - Guest - 05-02-2016

Soon as I get a new board in the mail


RE: How to dim the chianese black box led's - rcasero - 02-25-2022

Hi by any chance are those VipraSpectra lights ? and are those the output side of the drivers ? goes direct to the Robo-Tank device ?

Been truing to do my Vipraspectra lights for a while but do not wnat to buy the robo - tank device if I have no way to connect my Lights.

Thank you,


RE: How to dim the chianese black box led's - Rob F - 02-25-2022

Hi Rcasero, welcome to the forum. Those lights are different, the VipraSpectra lights require this adapter board, Tom Bishop over on Reef2Reef has some available. Hopefully you got my email.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/controlling-viparspectra-lights.698216/page-7#post-9827260


RE: How to dim the chianese black box led's - rott - 02-25-2022

(02-25-2022, 12:43 PM)Rob F Wrote: Hi Rcasero, welcome to the forum. Those lights are different, the VipraSpectra lights require this adapter board, Tom Bishop over on Reef2Reef has some available. Hopefully you got my email.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/controlling-viparspectra-lights.698216/page-7#post-9827260
Hi Rob those lights whee the black box light from china forge the name of them now but i bought new inserts for them and they work great. now I have 9 total but ya they where not easy to get robo tank controller to control them had to jump the 10 volt and use one of the converter boards you made was a lot of fun to figure it out.. K05164


RE: How to dim the chianese black box led's - Rob F - 02-25-2022

Hey Dale, yeah those were 10v the VipraSpectra are 3.3v PWM but also require a a circuit to shut them off. That converter board you used is now built into the controller which is kind of nice.


RE: How to dim the chianese black box led's - rott - 02-25-2022

ya it was fun back in the day almost every thing is 3.3 now that is what a lot of my christmas stuff runs on you ever try WLED ? its fun to play with


RE: How to dim the chianese black box led's - rott - 02-25-2022

Tell you what I do need is some how to know if the water stops going threw one of the lines from one of two pumps. Each of the lines are 2 inch ID and the pumps are variable speed Jebao pumps Jebao DCP-13000 60.75 Gallons Per Minute this pump rocks

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FK31BBZ/ref=dp_iou_view_item?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I have 2 of these one is direct full blast right in to my upflow wetland filter 8 foot wide by 10 foot long and 3 feet deep.
and other one will feed in to a stream that flows back into the pond pond is 10 foot wide 40 long and 3 foot deep will have led lighting in the water and around it on the outside
I need to be able to have something to monitor the pond 24/7 also ph and salinity I have the probes and each one has the circuit board from Atlas?? I also have one of the 4 stamp boards from white box ...Tentacle shield I think the one I have is for arduino but maybe can be used for Pi if not they make a Pi version also

I have a 4 way board from atlas scientific with 2 ph chips and a specific gravity chip all are the EZ style chips

This might all ready been added dont know??


RE: How to dim the chianese black box led's - Rob F - 02-25-2022

I haven't tried WLED but those programmable LED do look cool. Sounds like you need a flow meter like this.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00VKAT30C/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=5302020-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B00VKAT30C&linkId=d6d85b0fcf9b17688948c1a5d790ce84

Here's a script I made up, you can run this on a Pi and read the text files with the data. That's how reef-pi works, it just read a text file on the Pi.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/flow-meter-addon-for-reef-pi.812932/

For the other Atlas circuits other than pH you would need to have a script running like the flow meters.


RE: How to dim the chianese black box led's - rott - 02-25-2022

can that flow meter plug in to reef pi

was hoping for a wireless version that if there is a problem it would send me a txt message

sorry I didn't read the whole thing about adding it to reef pi


RE: How to dim the chianese black box led's - Rob F - 02-25-2022

Yeah it takes a bit to get it working with reef-pi but it can. Once the info is in reef-pi you can set alerts as well. Don't know about anything wireless you would have to customize something using Arduinos.


RE: How to dim the chianese black box led's - rott - 02-25-2022

ok I think I can use a ESP8266 NodeMCU


RE: How to dim the chianese black box led's - Rob F - 02-25-2022

You should be able to, might have to adjust the code to get the input configured for that board though.


RE: How to dim the chianese black box led's - rott - 02-25-2022

you want to aahh do that for me would be a nice add on I just finished about a month ago installing a unifi mesh network about back

deluxe sensor extension looks really cool


RE: How to dim the chianese black box led's - Rob F - 02-25-2022

I would like to but it would be a big project and I've never used an ESP8266, I wouldn't know where to start. A flow meter can connect to the sensor extension.


RE: How to dim the chianese black box led's - rott - 02-25-2022

think I will just try the touch screen first and 2 flow meters dont worry about the 8266 can I use the wireless chip on the pi to connectt o my wireless AP's


RE: How to dim the chianese black box led's - Rob F - 02-25-2022

Sorry I'm not sure, best thing is to search your AP with a Pi and see if anything comes up.


RE: How to dim the chianese black box led's - rott - 02-25-2022

I am thinking this would work for a local interface
https://www.amazon.com/ELECROW-Display-1024X600-Function-Raspberry/dp/B01GDMDFZA/ref=sr_1_11?crid=308MEFCZ87I89&keywords=usb+touchscreen+for+pi&qid=1645847635&sprefix=usb+touch+screen+for+pi%2Caps%2C147&sr=8-11


RE: How to dim the chianese black box led's - Rob F - 02-25-2022

Yeah that should work.