Hello,
My name is Oscar, and I am new to the Forum. To begin with, I have ZERO experience in building circuits and dont know anything about the terminology used here. So I beg forgiveness.
I hope you fine people will be able to point me in the right direction or maybe even design one for me so i can do the building myself (which i would enjoy doing even though I may drown the first few tries. haha)
Here is what I am wanting, for my Jeep. I would like to spice into the wire(s) going to my dome light. This spice would lead to a new circuit/button. I will talk only about the button right now. This button would be located on my dash and would be a momentary on switch. When pressed, it would turn the dome light on for X number of seconds/minutes. Ideally I would like the time to be programmable. I am thinking that for sake of ease (how easy, i really dont know, but my odd logic tells me it would be easy) that i would just limit the time to minutes instead of both minutes and seconds or just seconds.
Now, the light is on for a set time limit. Now with the push of the button a 2nd time, the lights will then turn off and the timer will reset to wait for the button to be pressed again to start the time and turn the light on.
As for the circuit, I have no idea on how to even begin to make something like this.
As for slicing into the the wire's leading to the dome light, I would still like to have the factory controls work for few different reason, hence the splice. So with that in mind, would there need to be something there to prevent the current from back flowing into the other circuit?
Now I really hope my asking for help in this mater is not out of line. I think it would be great if someone could design this for me in such a way that even I could understand it, so I could go out and buy the parts and build it myself.
Lastly, how hard would it be to make the like so it Fades off instead of an instant off?
Anyways, thank you all.
Oscar
My name is Oscar, and I am new to the Forum. To begin with, I have ZERO experience in building circuits and dont know anything about the terminology used here. So I beg forgiveness.
I hope you fine people will be able to point me in the right direction or maybe even design one for me so i can do the building myself (which i would enjoy doing even though I may drown the first few tries. haha)
Here is what I am wanting, for my Jeep. I would like to spice into the wire(s) going to my dome light. This spice would lead to a new circuit/button. I will talk only about the button right now. This button would be located on my dash and would be a momentary on switch. When pressed, it would turn the dome light on for X number of seconds/minutes. Ideally I would like the time to be programmable. I am thinking that for sake of ease (how easy, i really dont know, but my odd logic tells me it would be easy) that i would just limit the time to minutes instead of both minutes and seconds or just seconds.
Now, the light is on for a set time limit. Now with the push of the button a 2nd time, the lights will then turn off and the timer will reset to wait for the button to be pressed again to start the time and turn the light on.
As for the circuit, I have no idea on how to even begin to make something like this.
As for slicing into the the wire's leading to the dome light, I would still like to have the factory controls work for few different reason, hence the splice. So with that in mind, would there need to be something there to prevent the current from back flowing into the other circuit?
Now I really hope my asking for help in this mater is not out of line. I think it would be great if someone could design this for me in such a way that even I could understand it, so I could go out and buy the parts and build it myself.
Lastly, how hard would it be to make the like so it Fades off instead of an instant off?
Anyways, thank you all.
Oscar