Hello, i plan on making this this year, and wanted to know if you are using solid state relays, and if so how many lights are connected to each outlet? ive heard solid state relays only output 2A to each outlet, and that only supports at most 100 leds.
Hi, could you tell me how you made the connections, share your code and the vixen sequence because I'm doing something similar but I can not get 220v lights on slowly. I use arduino one and a place of 8 relays 240v 10 amps
Also, question. You went from the Arduino to all those Solid State Relay's how?? The uno isn't capable of driving that many from one board. Did that 2nd board with the microcontrollers (i think that's what they are) control the relays? I really am confused...
Very impressive; Please tell us which relay boards you used and a link of where to order them. Also, are these active high or active low driven relays. I prefer to use active low in case of hardware failure...Hate to have all the lights on at once if my driver section were to shut down or fail. Anyway, your help is greatly appreciated.
Good morning friend, what happens if I do not use solid state relays (ssr), and only use of the SainSmart 101-70-102 Relay Module, 8-Channel agradesco answer, since I have those, and they say it has to be solid state like the ones you are using.
@@sudheeravishwamithrasilva8620 Good morning friend, is this diagram correct for use with solid state relays? www.instructables.com/id/Luces-De-Navidad-Con-Relevadores-Christmas-Lights-/?fbclid=IwAR3DiHPI5VO4DwyJNbJsvPbo1qi4A-GZBCXJC6AmaRLuNcIypqARDF4QUXg
Good day mate! One question, how come you were able to control 48 lights/channels at the same time if you just used Arduino Uno which has only 20 IO pins? Thank you in advance for your response.
I've used only 3 Arduino pins to drive the 48 channels. I've designed my own driver board (see the photos at the beginning of the video) to extend it up to 48.
@@sudheeravishwamithrasilva8620 could you tell me how connect 48 relay and the basic code source. Il is my first experience with arduino, i used automate Wago before. Are you a web site for acquire the base .
I would probably recommend using an SD card mp3 player arduino shield to hold your music files, and a separate arduino with an SD card to control the lights. You would probably need to find a way to record the serial data stream from Vixen into a file the arduino could read. You could use 2 arduinos, one for vixen to send data to, and one(connected) arduino to view the serial monitor for the whole song. Then you could just copy paste the 1000 line long text file into a txt file on an SD card. This could then be read and interpreted by an arduino.
Are the lights ac or dc? judging by the wiring, looks to be dc... did you make any build videos? looks great! share your source code to get vixen into arduino?
It has 16 50V DC channels (bulky relays to the left) and the rest of the 32 channels are 240V/ 2A AC relays. However, all the strings used here are not switchable by design (i.e. from power supply level). So, I hacked into it where I'm switching the stepped down voltage (i.e 31 VAC) by each power supply. Originally I had all 48 relays AC (240V), but I accidentally happened to purchase 16 light strings of which power supplies actually converts the output into DC 36V. So, I had to replace AC relays with 50V DC relays for those. Regarding the design, Will share much simpler version of this in future to explain the concept. Cheers!
int A = 22; // these are the pin numbers on the ardunio int B = 23; int C = 24; int D = 25; int E = 26; int F = 27; int G = 28; int H = 29; int I = 30; int J = 31; int K = 32; int L = 33; int M = 34; int N = 35; int O = 36; int P = 37; int Q = 38; int R = 39; int S = 40; int T = 41; int U = 42; int V = 43; int W = 44; int X = 45; int Y = 46; int Z = 47; int AA = 48; int AB = 49; int AC = 50; int AD = 51; int AE = 52; int AF = 53; int i = 0; int incomingByte[32]; void setup() { Serial.begin(9600); pinMode(A, OUTPUT); // setting the pins to outputs pinMode(B, OUTPUT); pinMode(C, OUTPUT); pinMode(D, OUTPUT); pinMode(E, OUTPUT); pinMode(F, OUTPUT); pinMode(G, OUTPUT); pinMode(H, OUTPUT); pinMode(I, OUTPUT); pinMode(J, OUTPUT); pinMode(K, OUTPUT); pinMode(L, OUTPUT); pinMode(M, OUTPUT); pinMode(N, OUTPUT); pinMode(O, OUTPUT); pinMode(P, OUTPUT); pinMode(Q, OUTPUT); pinMode(R, OUTPUT); pinMode(S, OUTPUT); pinMode(T, OUTPUT); pinMode(U, OUTPUT); pinMode(V, OUTPUT); pinMode(W, OUTPUT); pinMode(X, OUTPUT); pinMode(Y, OUTPUT); pinMode(Z, OUTPUT); pinMode(AA, OUTPUT); pinMode(AB, OUTPUT); pinMode(AC, OUTPUT); pinMode(AD, OUTPUT); pinMode(AE, OUTPUT); pinMode(AF, OUTPUT);
} void loop() { if (Serial.available() >= 32) { for (int i=0; i
Penfold8 I cant speak for the op but I am not aware of dim able led Christmas strings on the market. If there are some they must be extremely expensive
There are many dimmable LED strings on the market.... In fact the only ones I have found that do not dim are Martha Stewart from Home Depot. For LED options Google LOR and check out the forums or search for Planet Christmas forums.
Bro, I need your expert opinion..... I made 16ch Christmas lights controller. But the problem is when i connect 240v to the relays, the arduino and the relay board got freeze and disconnected from the computer, so the lights are freeze. So i dont known what to do. Please help me. REPLY
Very nice and neat on the board.. then it all goes to hell.. lol. I do understand, though. It's a lot of work (probably as much as went into the rest of the show combined) to make the feed wires neat, and even more work if something goes wrong and you have to pull it all apart again to fix one, so I don't blame you at all.
problem video drive.google.com/file/d/0B5MrGrCGznlqWDJmVGdDQWF2NFE/view sketch imgur.com/nz4PF0O and one thing, when I play the sequence without connecting 240v(no lights) its works for long time(full sq). but when I connect 240v its stop(freeze) shortly.
mate that's insanely amazing. I've wanted to do a project like this for Christmas in sydney Australia for so long you should be proud of your work.
What a badass build
I nerded out to this way worse than I should have. 😂
Awesome work mate! Be proud. That’s fantastic.
Hopefully there's a fire hydrant nearby 😂😂 nice job 🤗👍
That was simply amazing!!!!!!!! Bad Ass!!
0:55 that’s one thicc controller you got there. Nice job!
Fire marshall bill here. Let me show ya somethin.
Hello, i plan on making this this year, and wanted to know if you are using solid state relays, and if so how many lights are connected to each outlet? ive heard solid state relays only output 2A to each outlet, and that only supports at most 100 leds.
WOW! that was SWEET dude! Nice Job:)
Wow, simply amazing !
Wow Nice work. Would you be able to share the sequence?
Can I have a copy of that sequence please?
Hi, could you tell me how you made the connections, share your code and the vixen sequence because I'm doing something similar but I can not get 220v lights on slowly. I use arduino one and a place of 8 relays 240v 10 amps
Amazing
were the 8bit chips used as expander daisy chained?
what type of light strings are you using ?. could you please share a link ?.
can we control pixel led and relay in same time using arduino mega by vixen software?
Can you make a tutorial on how you did this I know it uses relays
5v 60 amp power supply for the relays?
Nice work!
Hi, what parts you use to expand the amount of channels to 48?
A normal Arduino mega
you can use an arduino pro mini with 6 shift registers
what is the program's name on pc?
How to make it
Also, question. You went from the Arduino to all those Solid State Relay's how?? The uno isn't capable of driving that many from one board. Did that 2nd board with the microcontrollers (i think that's what they are) control the relays? I really am confused...
Those are an array of IO expanders (shift registers)
Oh, ok. Thanks for the quick response.
impressive.
Very impressive; Please tell us which relay boards you used and a link of where to order them. Also, are these active high or active low driven relays. I prefer to use active low in case of hardware failure...Hate to have all the lights on at once if my driver section were to shut down or fail. Anyway, your help is greatly appreciated.
These are active high OMRON relays (and 16 DC relays from a different manufacturer). Please see my previous replies for more info.
What kind of wire gauge is that
Chickenfans // Herobrine Myth probably 14 gauge that’s what I’m using with my light show
Good morning friend, what happens if I do not use solid state relays (ssr),
and only use of the SainSmart 101-70-102 Relay Module, 8-Channel
agradesco answer, since I have those, and they say it has to be solid state like the ones you are using.
Mechanical relays are very slow and can't switch in high frequencies.
@@sudheeravishwamithrasilva8620
Good morning friend, is this diagram correct for use with solid state relays? www.instructables.com/id/Luces-De-Navidad-Con-Relevadores-Christmas-Lights-/?fbclid=IwAR3DiHPI5VO4DwyJNbJsvPbo1qi4A-GZBCXJC6AmaRLuNcIypqARDF4QUXg
holy Copper batman. nice job.
Good day mate!
One question, how come you were able to control 48 lights/channels at the same time if you just used Arduino Uno which has only 20 IO pins?
Thank you in advance for your response.
I've used only 3 Arduino pins to drive the 48 channels. I've designed my own driver board (see the photos at the beginning of the video) to extend it up to 48.
Hi! Can you tell me how you make that driver board? Thanks!
I want one too! Or at least the schematic.
@@sudheeravishwamithrasilva8620 could you tell me how connect 48 relay and the basic code source. Il is my first experience with arduino, i used automate Wago before. Are you a web site for acquire the base .
Can i run all of this without using computer? Means i want that aruino should read vixen sequence from sd card
I would probably recommend using an SD card mp3 player arduino shield to hold your music files, and a separate arduino with an SD card to control the lights. You would probably need to find a way to record the serial data stream from Vixen into a file the arduino could read. You could use 2 arduinos, one for vixen to send data to, and one(connected) arduino to view the serial monitor for the whole song. Then you could just copy paste the 1000 line long text file into a txt file on an SD card. This could then be read and interpreted by an arduino.
Really great, what app are using on Windows to control the sequencing? Looks like Vixen can you confirm?
Thanks! Yes, it's Vixen 3
Are the lights ac or dc? judging by the wiring, looks to be dc... did you make any build videos? looks great! share your source code to get vixen into arduino?
It has 16 50V DC channels (bulky relays to the left) and the
rest of the 32 channels are 240V/ 2A AC relays. However, all the strings used here are not switchable by design (i.e. from power supply level). So, I hacked into it where I'm switching the stepped down voltage (i.e 31 VAC) by each power supply. Originally I had all 48 relays AC (240V), but I accidentally happened to purchase 16 light strings of which power supplies actually converts the output into DC 36V. So, I had to replace AC relays with 50V DC relays for
those.
Regarding the design, Will share much simpler version of this in future to explain the concept.
Cheers!
Thank you for the info! Greatly appreciated! And looking forward to more videos too
This is still pretty awesome, can you share information a little more?
Nice!! How long does it take you to set it all up and program?
As I did this during my spare time, it took me around 7-8 months
i think I need a schematic to undestand this
Good Job!
what software did you use to do the programming.
There are two programs running. One inside Arduino MCU (Arduino Language) and the other is running on the PC , which is Vixen 3
What code are you using to talk with the computer
int A = 22; // these are the pin numbers on the ardunio
int B = 23;
int C = 24;
int D = 25;
int E = 26;
int F = 27;
int G = 28;
int H = 29;
int I = 30;
int J = 31;
int K = 32;
int L = 33;
int M = 34;
int N = 35;
int O = 36;
int P = 37;
int Q = 38;
int R = 39;
int S = 40;
int T = 41;
int U = 42;
int V = 43;
int W = 44;
int X = 45;
int Y = 46;
int Z = 47;
int AA = 48;
int AB = 49;
int AC = 50;
int AD = 51;
int AE = 52;
int AF = 53;
int i = 0;
int incomingByte[32];
void setup()
{
Serial.begin(9600);
pinMode(A, OUTPUT); // setting the pins to outputs
pinMode(B, OUTPUT);
pinMode(C, OUTPUT);
pinMode(D, OUTPUT);
pinMode(E, OUTPUT);
pinMode(F, OUTPUT);
pinMode(G, OUTPUT);
pinMode(H, OUTPUT);
pinMode(I, OUTPUT);
pinMode(J, OUTPUT);
pinMode(K, OUTPUT);
pinMode(L, OUTPUT);
pinMode(M, OUTPUT);
pinMode(N, OUTPUT);
pinMode(O, OUTPUT);
pinMode(P, OUTPUT);
pinMode(Q, OUTPUT);
pinMode(R, OUTPUT);
pinMode(S, OUTPUT);
pinMode(T, OUTPUT);
pinMode(U, OUTPUT);
pinMode(V, OUTPUT);
pinMode(W, OUTPUT);
pinMode(X, OUTPUT);
pinMode(Y, OUTPUT);
pinMode(Z, OUTPUT);
pinMode(AA, OUTPUT);
pinMode(AB, OUTPUT);
pinMode(AC, OUTPUT);
pinMode(AD, OUTPUT);
pinMode(AE, OUTPUT);
pinMode(AF, OUTPUT);
}
void loop()
{
if (Serial.available() >= 32)
{
for (int i=0; i
Something like this I would guess.
Hi Bro, I want that sequence, please :D
OMFG!!!
Can you please sharw the file
Are these lights dimmable?
Penfold8 I cant speak for the op but I am not aware of dim able led Christmas strings on the market. If there are some they must be extremely expensive
There are many dimmable LED strings on the market.... In fact the only ones I have found that do not dim are Martha Stewart from Home Depot. For LED options Google LOR and check out the forums or search for Planet Christmas forums.
Bro, I need your expert opinion..... I made 16ch Christmas lights controller. But the problem is when i connect 240v to the relays, the arduino and the relay board got freeze and disconnected from the computer, so the lights are freeze. So i dont known what to do. Please help me. REPLY
wow that is a lot of wires
Very nice and neat on the board.. then it all goes to hell.. lol. I do understand, though. It's a lot of work (probably as much as went into the rest of the show combined) to make the feed wires neat, and even more work if something goes wrong and you have to pull it all apart again to fix one, so I don't blame you at all.
Come to my house this Christmas
I live in the UK wales
If one wire blows there’s a problem lol
I made one with 120 channels😅😂
problem video drive.google.com/file/d/0B5MrGrCGznlqWDJmVGdDQWF2NFE/view
sketch imgur.com/nz4PF0O
and one thing, when I play the sequence without connecting 240v(no lights) its works for long time(full sq). but when I connect 240v its stop(freeze) shortly.
Wow all I can say is wow :)