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Re: Would it be legal/possible?

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Originally Posted by tomy View Post
So it would be legal to wire it directly to the PD Board
Yes, but you would not be able to have the colors change without relays or other switching. If you aren't interested in "shades", but just being able to switch among the eight colors (off, red, green, blue, magenta, yellow, cyan, white), you can use 3 DIO ports and a relay module similar to the following:

http://store.linksprite.com/dc-5v-four-channels-relay-breakout-with-optoisolator/
(You would only need to use three of the four relays). We are planning to do something very similar to this to display our alliance colors during matches, green (our school color) during practice, and perhaps a few others occasionally.