Hi. I'm not an electrical engineer and besides designing simple ALU for university course and some basic wire repairs have no relevant experience. So any help and tips will be greatly appreciated.
Goal: Make ceiling lamp that can:
Also I have a LED strip that says 75W on box but has included 60W PSU, whats up with that?
Goal: Make ceiling lamp that can:
- change color from "cold" to "warm"(~6800K-2800K)
- change light intensity
- automatically transition from cold to warm light when bed time is near
- automatically transition from off to warm to cold before the alarm rings
- takes bed/alarm times via Bluetooth from phone/computer app
- about 1 x 0,5 x 0,15 (m)
- wooden box
- ~5 cm from ceiling a sheet metal to which the LEDs will be glued to
- above the metal plate are fans for cooling and all electronics
- ~10 cm below the metal would be sand blasted glass to diffuse the light
- (3-6)x 75W LED strips while generaly 1/3 working at any given time, but still being possible to turn all on.
- Wire colors: blue - control wires, green/yellow/red/black - 3.3V/5V/12V/24V
- Controlled by Arduino Uno/Mega, Bluetooth via HC-05
- Temperature sensors, fans and LED strips are connected in parallel
- Each LED strip controlled by PWM
- Two options for power supply : 24V with down step to 12V/5V or 12V/5V/3.3V and step up to 24V (if 24V LED)
- Should I feed power to temperature sensors and Bluetooth from Arduino board or straight from power supply?
- If I turn one strip off then the system resistance changes, is this problem?
- How is it possible, that I can cut LED strips without doing any additional changes as it would increase the resistance?
- Which power supply schema to use? Or use two power supplies PC PSU for 12V, 5V and 3.3V components and 24V for LEDs only?
- Where to put fuses to make sure that in case something fails the power will be cut off?
- Do the NPN-transistor leak current? Do I have to put relay before each to conserve energy?
- Which LED-s to use? The variety is so big (5$ - 100$) and very little reviews/benchmarks about specific products.
Also I have a LED strip that says 75W on box but has included 60W PSU, whats up with that?
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