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Re: pic: The lights! The lights!

Do you have 2 strips of lights there or just 1 strip of the color changing ones? Also curious how you hooked them up to allow you to change color as well as flash them with the pneumatics? I'm assuming that there current draw was too great to just put right off one of the break out boards.
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Re: pic: The lights! The lights!

There are two strips of lights, red and blue. Each strip is driven by a spike relay module. We have a Hobbs digital pressure switch set at 60 PSI on the pneumatics. The robot will flash the lights until that pressure is read by turning the relay on and off. The pressure switch was in the 1999 or 2000 kit of parts. Most of our robot is made of recycled parts including the lights that we used last year.
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Re: pic: The lights! The lights!

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There are two strips of lights, red and blue. Each strip is driven by a spike relay module.
Each on a Spike? You do know you can use one spike to do that - Set it to "OFF" and both are off, set it to "FORWARD" and one is on, set it to "REVERSE" and the other is on, or set it to "ON" and both are on. Connect the + inputs of each light to the M+ or M- on the Spike and run the - to the GND on the Spike (input side) or to any spare black connection on the PD board.

We have six 12" lights on our robot, connected to 3 Spike channels (2 spikes), in Red, Green, and Blue. No RGB color, just Red, Green, or Blue (or more than one). We use Blue to indicate ball in and Green to indicate High Gear (much easier for the coach to yell at the driver for running around in LOW). When the robot hangs from the vertical pole, they flash in sequence as soon as it is above the platform.
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Re: pic: The lights! The lights!

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Each on a Spike? You do know you can use one spike to do that - Set it to "OFF" and both are off, set it to "FORWARD" and one is on, set it to "REVERSE" and the other is on, or set it to "ON" and both are on. Connect the + inputs of each light to the M+ or M- on the Spike and run the - to the GND on the Spike (input side) or to any spare black connection on the PD board.

We have six 12" lights on our robot, connected to 3 Spike channels (2 spikes), in Red, Green, and Blue. No RGB color, just Red, Green, or Blue (or more than one). We use Blue to indicate ball in and Green to indicate High Gear (much easier for the coach to yell at the driver for running around in LOW). When the robot hangs from the vertical pole, they flash in sequence as soon as it is above the platform.
That arrangement doesn't sound legal to me, but I need to re-read the rules carefully to be sure.
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