How do you make your watts, Jonathan? Just curious. Bill
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Jonathan Peakall <jpeak...@madlabs.info> wrote: > Hi, > > I did just that, not for tube life but because I live off the grid and need > every watt I can make. I used an IR sensor from Parallax and interfaced it > to an MCU. Nice thing for me is the clock is MCU driven, so all I had to do > is add a little code. It's nice to do it with a MCU because you can decide > how much movement for how long makes the tubes turn on (so the cat doesn;t > turn it on) and how long it stays on until it goes back to sleep. Do you > play with PICS/AVR etc? > > Jonathan > > The only problem now with the clock is that the tubes are very expensive and > I want to preserve their longevity. > > I wonder if anyone can help me interface either an IR remote control to > switch the HV to the display on and off to permit continued time keeping > with the display off. This would increase tube life since I am never home > from 7AM to 7 PM and can turn off the display during the day. > Alternatively, an IR/Heat sensing PIR motion detector could, via a small > relay, turn the display off and on with movement in the room. Perhaps this > would be a more sophisticated solution. Looking at the attached schematic it > appears that the switch could be placed between the step up transformer HV > rail either before or after the Neon indicators. If placed after the > indicators the neons would stay lit indicating the clock was still running > albeit in display off mode. Thanks for any help or providing another > resource to help me solve this issue. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "neonixie-l" group. > To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
