Re: [Freevo-users] The breathing hard disk light

2005-04-11 Thread Chris Ellis
Karl Lattimer wrote: After sitting, almost transfixed on my mac's sleep light as it slowly rises and falls a little college electronics returned to me. ^^ HD LED |---||+ HD+ o--[ R ]--+ c|-+ |---|(-+ | HD-

Re: [Freevo-users] The breathing hard disk light

2005-04-11 Thread Per Homer
Why not just unhook it :) Karl Lattimer wrote: After sitting, almost transfixed on my mac's sleep light as it slowly rises and falls a little college electronics returned to me. ^^ HD LED |---||+ HD+ o--[ R ]--+ c|-+ |---|(-+ |

Re: [Freevo-users] The breathing hard disk light

2005-04-11 Thread Geert Decorte
AFAIK (my technical college time is 20 years behind me now) You need to feed a led with a current of aproximity 15 mA (should have to look a datasheets for this). Depending on the color of the led the tension could be in the neighbourhood of 1.2 V So the value of R would be R = (UHD - 1.2)/15 mA

Re: [Freevo-users] The breathing hard disk light

2005-04-11 Thread Chris Ellis
Karl Lattimer wrote: After sitting, almost transfixed on my mac's sleep light as it slowly rises and falls a little college electronics returned to me. ^^ HD LED |---||+ HD+ o--[ R ]--+ c|-+ |---|(-+ | HD-

Re: [Freevo-users] The breathing hard disk light

2005-04-11 Thread Chris Ellis
Geert Decorte wrote: AFAIK (my technical college time is 20 years behind me now) You need to feed a led with a current of aproximity 15 mA (should have to look a datasheets for this). Depending on the color of the led the tension could be in the neighbourhood of 1.2 V So the value of R would be R

Re: [Freevo-users] The breathing hard disk light

2005-04-11 Thread Karl Lattimer
Is this a final breathing LED circuit? and i'll build it ;) Has aggreement been reached? Homage to apple, such a simple circuit, such simple idea's such ground breaking effects K, Chris Ellis wrote: Geert Decorte wrote: AFAIK (my technical college time is 20 years behind me now) You need to

Re: [Freevo-users] The breathing hard disk light

2005-04-11 Thread Karl Lattimer
One question about the below circuit, how does the slow charge of the cap happen, the orignal point of putting the resistor before the cap was to have a slow increase and a slow decrease through the LED draining the power. if the cap has no resistance then won't it reach almost full charge of

Re: [Freevo-users] The breathing hard disk light

2005-04-11 Thread Chris Ellis
Karl Lattimer wrote: Is this a final breathing LED circuit? and i'll build it ;) Has aggreement been reached? Homage to apple, such a simple circuit, such simple idea's such ground breaking effects K, Chris Ellis wrote: Geert Decorte wrote: AFAIK (my

Re: [Freevo-users] The breathing hard disk light

2005-04-11 Thread Eric Jorgensen
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 17:14:14 +0100 Karl Lattimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this a final breathing LED circuit? and i'll build it ;) Has aggreement been reached? Homage to apple, such a simple circuit, such simple idea's such ground breaking effects My Toshiba laptop had a

Re: [Freevo-users] The breathing hard disk light

2005-04-11 Thread Chris Ellis
Karl Lattimer wrote: One question about the below circuit, how does the slow charge of the cap happen, the orignal point of putting the resistor before the cap was to have a slow increase and a slow decrease through the LED draining the power. if the cap has no resistance then won't it reach

Re: [Freevo-users] The breathing hard disk light

2005-04-11 Thread Karl Lattimer
Chris Ellis wrote: Karl Lattimer wrote: One question about the below circuit, how does the slow charge of the cap happen, the orignal point of putting the resistor before the cap was to have a slow increase and a slow decrease through the LED draining the power. if the cap has no resistance

Re: [Freevo-users] The breathing hard disk light

2005-04-10 Thread Chris Ellis
Karl Lattimer wrote: After sitting, almost transfixed on my mac's sleep light as it slowly rises and falls a little college electronics returned to me. ^^ HD LED |---||+ HD+ o--[ R ]--+ c|-+ |---|(-+ | HD-