L.E.D. Power supply question HELP!!!

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Abad

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I wish to make a ring of LED's to put around a camera lens. What woul
dbe the best way to figure out how much power and how to power this
ring? Would there be a way to put a dimmer on there as well?

Any help greatly appreciated!

Abad
 
This all depends on what power source you have available and the colour of
LED's you wish to use.

For example with a 12v supply, you can put 5 red LED's in a series with a 47
Ohm resistor, thus you could prbably make the ring with 15 or 20 LED's and
therefore 4 strings. IF you wish a different colour you have to look at the
forward voltage and work out how many you can put in series together with
your power source. With 5V you will be limited to either 1 or 2

I'd personally run it from a transformed power supply to 12v DC and design
the strings accordingly.
You probably want to use an astable vibrator of some sort using a 555 timer
to run the LED's. You can dim this by varying the duty cycle of the
vibrator. Or, you can place a variable resistor in series with the LED
strings and change this to dim the LED's

Hope this helps. But, as they say there are many ways to skin a cat so I'm
sure there will be other solutions you prefer

Robbie


"Abad" <waveventur@aol.com> wrote in message
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I wish to make a ring of LED's to put around a camera lens. What woul
dbe the best way to figure out how much power and how to power this
ring? Would there be a way to put a dimmer on there as well?

Any help greatly appreciated!

Abad
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"Abad" <waveventur@aol.com> wrote in message
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I wish to make a ring of LED's to put around a camera
lens. What woul dbe the best way to figure out how much
power and how to power this ring? Would there be a way to
put a dimmer on there as well?

Any help greatly appreciated!

Abad
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Is this for macro photography?
Have you looked at the Nikon adapter that does this? It might give you some
idea how to proceed, and also I doubt you could build one for less than what
they cost from a camera shop, unless you are looking for coloured light or
something odd like that.
 
Abad wrote:

I wish to make a ring of LED's to put around a camera lens. What woul
dbe the best way to figure out how much power and how to power this
ring? Would there be a way to put a dimmer on there as well?

Any help greatly appreciated!
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See URL http://www.photoprojects.net/index8.html

Abad
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Robbie Banks wrote:

This all depends on what power source you have available and the colour of
LED's you wish to use.

For example with a 12v supply, you can put 5 red LED's in a series with a 47
Ohm resistor, thus you could prbably make the ring with 15 or 20 LED's and
therefore 4 strings. IF you wish a different colour you have to look at the
forward voltage and work out how many you can put in series together with
your power source. With 5V you will be limited to either 1 or 2

I'd personally run it from a transformed power supply to 12v DC and design
the strings accordingly.
You probably want to use an astable vibrator of some sort using a 555 timer
to run the LED's. You can dim this by varying the duty cycle of the
vibrator. Or, you can place a variable resistor in series with the LED
strings and change this to dim the LED's
Click to expand...
Really bad advice. Pulsing the LEDs while the shutter is open will
result in an exposure that's incorrect.

Obviously he won't need red LEDs for a camera.

Hope this helps. But, as they say there are many ways to skin a cat so I'm
sure there will be other solutions you prefer

Robbie


"Abad" <waveventur@aol.com> wrote in message
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I wish to make a ring of LED's to put around a camera lens. What woul
dbe the best way to figure out how much power and how to power this
ring? Would there be a way to put a dimmer on there as well?

Any help greatly appreciated!

Abad
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Don't be ripped off by the big book dealers. Go to the URL
that will give you a choice and save you money(up to half).
http://www.everybookstore.com You'll be glad you did!
Just when you thought you had all this figured out, the gov't
changed it: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
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"Watson A.Name "Watt Sun - the Dark Remover"" <NOSPAM@dslextreme.com> wrote
in message news:bpltum$4uj3v$2@hades.csu.net...
Abad wrote:

I wish to make a ring of LED's to put around a camera lens. What woul
dbe the best way to figure out how much power and how to power this
ring? Would there be a way to put a dimmer on there as well?

Any help greatly appreciated!

See URL http://www.photoprojects.net/index8.html
Click to expand...
Bad Link?

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Good Link
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"Louis Bybee" <louistroutbybee@comcasttrout.net> wrote in message
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"Watson A.Name "Watt Sun - the Dark Remover"" <NOSPAM@dslextreme.com
wrote
in message news:bpltum$4uj3v$2@hades.csu.net...
Abad wrote:

I wish to make a ring of LED's to put around a camera lens. What woul
dbe the best way to figure out how much power and how to power this
ring? Would there be a way to put a dimmer on there as well?

Any help greatly appreciated!

See URL http://www.photoprojects.net/index8.html


Bad Link?

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Check out National Semiconductor's dedicated circuits for powering
white illumination LEDs. They offer lot's of control and versatility.
 
Works now. Didn't work when I tried it earler.

Possibly it was busy?

Thank you.

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"John G" <greentestatoptusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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Good Link
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Wot's Your Real Problem?

"Louis Bybee" <louistroutbybee@comcasttrout.net> wrote in message
news:35vvb.205084$ao4.729020@attbi_s51...
"Watson A.Name "Watt Sun - the Dark Remover"" <NOSPAM@dslextreme.com
wrote
in message news:bpltum$4uj3v$2@hades.csu.net...
Abad wrote:

I wish to make a ring of LED's to put around a camera lens. What
woul
dbe the best way to figure out how much power and how to power this
ring? Would there be a way to put a dimmer on there as well?

Any help greatly appreciated!

See URL http://www.photoprojects.net/index8.html


Bad Link?

Louis--
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Remove the two fish in address to respond
Click to expand...
 
In article <6pCvb.73561$Dw6.373699@attbi_s02>,
louistroutbybee@comcasttrout.net mentioned...
Works now. Didn't work when I tried it earler.

Possibly it was busy?

Thank you.

Louis--
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Let's move on from whether or not the link works to comments on the
contents of the link.


"John G" <greentestatoptusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:3fbe9791$0$13968$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
Good Link
--
John G

Wot's Your Real Problem?

"Louis Bybee" <louistroutbybee@comcasttrout.net> wrote in message
news:35vvb.205084$ao4.729020@attbi_s51...
"Watson A.Name "Watt Sun - the Dark Remover"" <NOSPAM@dslextreme.com
wrote
in message news:bpltum$4uj3v$2@hades.csu.net...
Abad wrote:

I wish to make a ring of LED's to put around a camera lens. What
woul
dbe the best way to figure out how much power and how to power this
ring? Would there be a way to put a dimmer on there as well?

Any help greatly appreciated!

See URL http://www.photoprojects.net/index8.html


Bad Link?

Louis--
Click to expand...

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Don't be ripped off by the big book dealers. Go to the URL
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http://www.everybookstore.com You'll be glad you did!
Just when you thought you had all this figured out, the gov't
changed it: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
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I'd personally run it from a transformed power supply to 12v DC and
design
the strings accordingly.
You probably want to use an astable vibrator of some sort using a 555
timer
to run the LED's. You can dim this by varying the duty cycle of the
vibrator. Or, you can place a variable resistor in series with the LED
strings and change this to dim the LED's

Really bad advice. Pulsing the LEDs while the shutter is open will
result in an exposure that's incorrect.

Obviously he won't need red LEDs for a camera.
Click to expand...
Not apparent from post if it's a still's camera/video/cctv. Or the app of
the camera. Lighting, SFX. So all input is valid.

Cheers
Robbie
 
Watson A.Name \Watt Sun - the Dark Remover\ wrote:

Obviously he won't need red LEDs for a camera.
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I don't know about that. White LED's send out a mixture of blue (from
the chip) and yellow (from a fluorescent dye in the plastic) light. So
adding some green, orange and red LEDs may be necessary to get correct
representation of colours.

Has anybody ever tried to make a truly white light by mixing different
LEDs like that?

In the catalogues I found LEDs with the following wavelengths: 400, 420,
440, 470, 490, 503, 520, 565, 590, 605, 615, 625, 632, 660 nm. Beyond
470 nm those would be superbright LEDs. So apart from a gap around 540
nm (which is unfortunately where the human eye is most sensitive) the
entire visible spectrum is covered. Interesting would be the range
between 450-650 nm, which is about the range of the human eye.
 
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