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Re: Led Tape Control

Thanks for the link to the Adafruit site, those LED's look great.

Output devices like motors, compressors, etc need to be controlled by Victors or Spike like devices. You could always ask the GDC for approval to build a custom circuit to drive the LED's. Since it's part of your game play, you can't use the decoration rule. You could see if the Victors will drive them to the bright/dim that you want and see if the GDC will let you put a non motor on the device.

We went with the Spikes to make sure there were no inspection issues.

Good luck!
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