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Nikola

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Hello guys,
I'm a high school studnet from Croatia. I need to make some project for end of my studie.
I choose led dimmer for my end project but I can't finde proper shematic on internet.
I would like to use potentiometer and I would use it for my garage LED lights.

Do some of you guy have some sehmatic?
 

Harald Kapp

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LEDs are usually dimmed using pulse width modulation (PWM). Lots of circuits available on the internet.

I'll move this thread to the homework section where it belongs.
 

danadak

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Some questions :

1) Do you know how to code in C or using block languages like scratch or mBlock ?

2) Familiar with using Arduino ?

3) Your garage LED lights a dimmable string or just a 110 VAC plugin string ?


Regards, Dana.
 

Nikola

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1. I did’t work in any of this programs
2.Lights are not the problem because I will by them after I build my project.
 

bertus

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Hello,

As said, lookup a PWM circuit.
Those can be mada witha NE555 or other smitt-trigger chips.
What will be the working voltage?

Bertus
 

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Hello,

12 Volts leds can be dimmed using PWM.
220 Volts AC led lamps can (most times) be dimmed with a phase adjusting dimmer.
The 220 Volts leds must be suitable for dimming.

Bertus
 

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Do you have any shematic of 220 AC LED lampa dimmer?
The problem is not the 220 V dimmer. The problem is that the driver circuits of many 220 V LED lamps are not dimmable. If they are, the LED lamp is explicitly marked as dimmable. But then again using a 220 V dimmer and a dimmable 220 V LED lamp thwarts the purpose of your initial question and assignment, because such a setup would not be called a "LED dimmer".

For your own safety, stay with 12 V. A Google search for "PWM LED Dimmer Circuit" will turn up heaps of suitable safe circuits.
 
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