Thread: Wiring your LED tube indicator (the illegal way)
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Re: Wiring your LED tube indicator (the illegal way)
Team 1716 is using one spike to control 2 LED's to indicate the desired tube. We decided that a "White Led" for a white tube would not be the best solution as it is very difficult to see in bright lighting conditions(although with your snot box i don't know whether this would be the case or not).

This is how we will be indicating... however we do anticipate a problem if something gets disconnected and we are unable to power the LED, it will always be white. We then have a hand signal system if this goes down.

If red LED is on: Give Red tube
If blue LED is on: Give Blue tube
If no LED is on: Give white tube

On another note, we are placing a ping pong ball over our LED's to diffuse them and make them more visible, this might be a lighter solution than your "snotbox", but just a suggestion.
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