A suitable method to sense when some LEDs in my Garage Door Opener are on. A power source (perhaps the same as Vout below) runs to a 1. 5Kohm resistor which runs to 6 LEDs then a transistor of some sort. The transistor is attached to ground and pin 7 on a PIC18F4520. Pin 7 on the PIC is a digital out thus I`m assuming PWM is used to dim the LEDs. To use the Opener as a control signal to control an external
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light repeating the PWM for fancy dimming. The external light is a 12V 1W LED strip. Power for the external light I was hoping to also take from the Opener`s Vout using a buck converter. Existing parts in the Opener: V2 = Vout and/or the LED power source (not sure if they`re one and the same) R1 is the current limiting resistor D1-6 are the existing LEDs Additional components for my circuit are: R3, R4 voltage divider to power the mosfet. M1 FQP27P06 mosfet, I`ve chosen another mosfet in ltspice which should be similar. V1 12v out from the D24V3AHV buck converter. R5 simulated load for testing in ltspice. This will be replaced with the external light. What I`m not showing here is the power coming into the buck converter. This will come from Vout and Gnd. My primary concern here is that my output will be all whack because Vout is not a constant voltage source it seems. That and I will be modulating the load on the buck converter meaning it`s voltage might go all over the shop. There doesn`t seem to be any data available from Pololu on the exact behaviour. The buck converter is > 80% efficient when Vin is 24v and driving 12v @ 48mA for the LEDs. Given 24v @ 55mA is 1. 32W I calculate that I can safely draw 80% of this which is 1. 056W. Not much room for error however I haven`t yet received the parts I will be using for this so I haven`t tested how the regulator is affected by changes in voltage supply or loading. The info on...
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