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Re: Arduino LED strip control legality?

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Originally Posted by EricH View Post
No, it's not legal. See [R52] and the blue box for [R65].

You'd have to have the cRIO telling the lights to turn on and off.
I don't beleive that those rules apply to a non-functional decoration in the way that you think. The arduino is a custom circuit, and the LEDs are a custom circuit. This is explicitly allowed by [R65A]. If the arduino also connected to a jaguar, that would be illegal.

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Originally Posted by tekman1001 View Post
I had read those rules but was under the opinion that when they spoke of "controlled" it was referring to the motors and devices that physically move.
I agree with your interpretation.