LED Chakra is an ornamental lighting system which depicts or imitates a rotating wheel like appearance, by means of sequentially shifting Illuminated LED arrays. Indian subcontinent is a land of festivals and celebrations which mostly start from the month of August and continues until the New Year. All these festivals have one fundamental thing in […]
Lamps and Lights
10 Simple LED Chaser Circuit Diagrams Explained [Knight Rider, Scanner, Reverse-Forward, Cascaded]
In this article I have explained the construction of 10 interesting yet simple LED chaser circuits, which not only create beautiful running light effect but are also easy to build. We also discuss how to modify these into a design popularly known as “knight rider” chaser circuit. These primarily incorporate LEDs as well as mains […]
Simple 220V RGB LED Bulb Circuit for Christmas, Diwali Decoration
In this post I will explain this 220V RGB slow fading LED bulb circuit step by step and we can start from the left side and slowly move toward the right side so that you can understand what each block is doing. We use many parts like 555, 4017, 33uF, D1 to D4, and others […]
Christmas LED Candle Light Timer Circuit
In this post I have explained a sequentially advancing 25 LED timer circuit which may be initiated on the 1st day of December so that each LED lights up on each day until the 25th of December (on Christmas) when all the 25 LED can be seen lit up. The circuit was requested by Mr. […]
Electric Match (Ematch) Circuit Firework Ignitor
In this post I will comprehensively explain a simple electric match igniter circuit which can be used for implementing a foolproof ignition of a series of Ematches through a microcontroller based control system. The idea was requested and explained by Mr. Jerry Shallis The details may be understood by reading the following email discussion between […]
Simple RGB LED Color Mixer Circuit using LM317 IC
In this post I have explained a simple LM317 IC based RGB 3 watt LED color mixer circuit, which can be used for demonstrating the color mixing effects of red, blue, green colors as specified in the standard color charts. The idea was requested by Mr.Praveen. Technical Specifications My name is Pravin, I work in […]