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HI folks, I'm very, very new to programming and am trying to design a small project for my Motorcycle that monitors the ambient light and turns on a relay for the lights, in addition to a turn signal function all in the same programme. I have produced these two projects, the "autoheadlamp" seems to work fine but the "indicator" one which seems to verify but won't work on my setup.. I would like to combine them into one piece of code can anyone help?

indicators.ino (1.31 KB)

Autoheadlights.ino (614 Bytes)

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stevemac76:
HI folks, I'm very, very new to programming and am trying to design a small project for my Motorcycle that monitors the ambient light and turns on a relay for the lights, in addition to a turn signal function all in the same programme. I have produced these two projects, the "autoheadlamp" seems to work fine but the "indicator" one which seems to verify but won't work on my setup.. I would like to combine them into one piece of code can anyone help?

I'm not sure what you want to do in your autoheadlamp sketch but you only write a LOW to the LED, never a HIGH. Do you actually want the LED to turn on?

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HI, don't know what's happened as the code definitely works and does write HIGH to the led... Like I say I'm a complete noob and will try to repost a more readable code

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ToddL1962:
I'm not sure what you want to do in your autoheadlamp sketch but you only write a LOW to the LED, never a HIGH. Do you actually want the LED to turn on?

Doesn't that depend on how the LED is wired (and if it ever needs to be turned off)?

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TheMemberFormerlyKnownAsAWOL:
Doesn't that depend on how the LED is wired (and if it ever needs to be turned off)?

True but his comment says LOW turns it off. The OP has a button and an LED. The LED stays off and the button toggles a flag. Pretty boring....

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stevemac76:
HI, don't know what's happened as the code definitely works and does write HIGH to the led... Like I say I'm a complete noob and will try to repost a more readable code

I'm sorry. I was referring to your indicators.ino not the autoheadlamp.ino. The indicators sketch never turns on the LED.

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