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Digital clock - light variant

Mfhotkowski

Apr 28, 2014
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Hi everyone, new here.

I'm working on an electronics final project for on of my physics courses. We've made a clock from a signal counter that counts from 00:00:00 to 23:59:59, with nothing but drivers, counters, seven-segments, and lots and lots of wires, it's quite a mess, but it works, and counts fairly accurately.

We want the seven-segments to brighten as the room the clock is in gets brighter, via a photodiode (pdb-c156). With the photo-diode being a current source, we tried using a transimpendence amplifier, but the change relative to light was very slight (this is before we put it into our clock circuitry).

Long story short, we need to use a current source photo-diode to make a +1.6 V powered load to a +1.9 V.

Also, not sure if I understand the adding of two DC voltage sources.

Thanks a lot for all the help!
 

KrisBlueNZ

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Hello and welcome to Electronics Point :)

Can you post the schematic that you tried, and the range of output voltages you were getting from it?
 

kpatz

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Is there any circuitry in your clock to control the LED brightness now? Or is it just controlled by current-limiting resistors? Also, is the display multiplexed?

The simplest way to modulate the brightness with with PWM. If you can have the photodiode control the pulse width of a signal, you could modulate the display brightness that way.
 
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