Thanks
Will give the suggestion a crack and see how it goes
Here is the plan team
Given that the site is in New Zealand the plan is as follows
Purchase new 9 or 12V power supplies and then splice in a buck converter to reduce the voltage back to 7 / 7.5V.
These power supplies are only used to power the Mega board and the Ethernet board to receive a signal from an application across the local network and then send a signal to the LED lights to light a group of lights in either red of green. The Mega board IS NOT being used to power the LED lights and is not a source of power for anything else.
The LED lights have their own dedicated power supply as indicated by the schematic already previously provided. This being the case there is no major load being powered by the Mega board.
I do not want to use economical and possibly unreliable power supply or buck converters. I also do not want to have to take out a mortgage to make the purchase. So is there any recommendations as to what i should look at using?
Thanks in advance
Can you include some software to monitor the temperature, inside the box. It is easy enough using the internal temperature sensor on the internal A/D.
I ask this because you mentioned the box is enclosed and there is no mention of ventilation, or other ways of transferring heat from the inside to the outside of the box. Such a setup could get very hot inside the box, even with a minimum amount of heat generated.
I have come across posts that say that, and it turns out there is at least one, so called "quality" distributor selling clones and describing them as genuine in Australia. Can you post a photograph of the boards you have, both front and back. So we can check.
1 Like
This topic was automatically closed 180 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.