Thread: [WIP] Chameleon TOH
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2014-02-23 , 22:57
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#9
Originally Posted by kimmoli View Post
You should go to side-firing rgb leds (rare), or single-color and arrange fibers so that every other goes to different color.

or skip the fiber-thing, and use sidefiring with diffusors, something like in lcd backlights. ?dunno. use more leds with lower current to get even light?
Side-firing sounds viable. Arranging fibers, maybe no.

Based on my tests, I think the fiber stuff is enough (indoors). I may change the leds to side-firing ones later to make the TOH thinner. But if there's some backlight + RGB combo and it draws max. ~100 mA I'll happily use it

Problem with multiple leds is that every color draws at max. about 20 mA. If I have 10 RGB leds and I drive each color at 10 mA, those 10 (actually 30) leds draw total 300 mA.