I have an LED circuit (a tally system for television cameras) that I need to add on to. My add-on works fine stand-alone, but when I plug in both the existing system and mine, the existing system seems to get all the power, and my LEDs go out.
The system is fed 5 volts from the video switcher when the LEDs should go on (when the camera is live.) I'm simply splitting the cable and feeding the same voltage to both the existing circuit and my new one.
The system has both red (on-air) and green (next up), but red and green will never be on at the same time. We also don't have the green tally implemented yet, so I don't know if I have the same problem with green as I do with red.
To sum up: existing circuit works, my circuit works, both together and the existing circuit takes over. Thanks for any help.
The system is fed 5 volts from the video switcher when the LEDs should go on (when the camera is live.) I'm simply splitting the cable and feeding the same voltage to both the existing circuit and my new one.
The system has both red (on-air) and green (next up), but red and green will never be on at the same time. We also don't have the green tally implemented yet, so I don't know if I have the same problem with green as I do with red.
To sum up: existing circuit works, my circuit works, both together and the existing circuit takes over. Thanks for any help.