Okay, so I'm new to this forum, Arduino programming and electronics itself. This is gonna be my first ever project made.
What I'd like to do is to simply control 3 EL wires independently and this is a circuit diagram I got so far (SEE BELLOW. It took me like 3 hours to combine multiple schemes into a single one as I'm an absolute beginner in such stuff).
Before starting to deal with a real circuit, I'd like You to answer me few questions:
Will this even work?
If so, is it safe?
Is 1 x 9V enough for UNO, LCD and 3-channel relay? 4 x 1,5V AA (series & parallel SHOWN BELLOW) for 3 EL wires (0,5 W/m, 2,2~m altogether).
May there be applied any power consumption and/or battery quantity and type related improvements? (This will be a portable DC powered project that must run for at least 2 hours. 0.6 m of EL Wire will be blinking once per second (or half a second) and the other 1.6 m will run constantly).
If this is your first venture , my advice is to play with the IDE examples first and get to know the Arduino and how to code it.
It’s also worth studying a bit about circuits , so you know the range of voltages for an Arduino, a bit about how much current various things take and battery capacity.
I’d always advise against downloading other people’s projects until you know how they work and how to fix/de bug them.
That’s my view anyhow
hammy:
If this is your first venture , my advice is to play with the IDE examples first and get to know the Arduino and how to code it.
It’s also worth studying a bit about circuits , so you know the range of voltages for an Arduino, a bit about how much current various things take and battery capacity.
I’d always advise against downloading other people’s projects until you know how they work and how to fix/de bug them.
That’s my view anyhow
Got plenty of programming experience in C, C++, python and other high/low-level programming languages. So programming side won't be a trouble for me i guess. The electronics part is what struggles me.
as I'm an absolute beginner in such stuff).
