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Rotating LED Chakra Circuit for God Idols

Last Updated on September 5, 2019 by Swagatam 10 Comments

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LED Chakra is an ornamental lighting system which depicts or imitates a rotating wheel like appearance, by means of sequentially shifting Illuminated LED arrays.

ornamental LED wheek chakra

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 common, and that is dazzling colorful lights, flashing and running with all sorts of patterns and sequences. Most of these lights are in the form of LED lights since LEDs are the most efficient in terms of brightness and cost.

In this article we will discuss one such interesting LED ornamental project, which will imitate a rotating illuminated chakra light. These can be commonly seen behind the crown of popular God idols like lord Ganesha, Sai baba, and around the finger of Lord Vishnu.

LED wheel chakra for God idol decoration

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Working Theory

The working principle of this LED chakra circuit is based on the popular IC 4017 and IC 555 chaser circuit. The only difference being in the output driver stages, which has been upgraded with a delay OFF timer stage for introducing an eye catching slow fade effect.

The slow fade effect induces the required persistence of vision effect which we normally experience in real life rotating equipment such as fans, motor, vehicle wheels etc.

This allows the LED chakra to acquire a real shiny rotating metal kind of effect when it's placed behind the crwon of God idols.

Circuit Description

As mentioned above the design works with the IC 4017 which is Johnson's 10 stage decade counter divider IC, and a basic astable multivibrator IC 555.

The IC 555 oscillates at around 50 to 100 Hz rate (adjustable) and supplies the required clock pulses to the pin#14 of the IC 4017.

The IC 4017 converts the clocks into a momentarily ON shifting high logics across its output pins.

These moving logic levels are fed to the array delay OFF transistor stages which hold the sequential triggers for some moment instead of switching off immediately.

This enable the respective transistor stages to keep the LEDs ON for some time and provide the required rotational chakra like effect with a time lag.

Parts List

All resistors are 1/4 watt 5%

  • 10K - 10
  • 22K - 10
  • 33K - 1
  • 100K or 330k pot - 1

Capacitor

  • 0.01uF - 1
  • 0.1uF - 1
  • 1uF/25V - 1
  • 33uF/25V - 10

Semiconductors

  • 1N4148 - 10
  • BC547 - 10
  • LEDs - 40
  • IC 4017 - 1
  • IC 555 - 1

If you have questions regarding the construction of this LED wheel chakra project, you may feel free to ask through the comments below.

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  1. Ken hand says

    September 16, 2020 at 7:20 pm

    Can you help will this project support more led,s per row of lights your circuit shows four lights will it support up to ten

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    • Swagatam says

      September 17, 2020 at 9:34 am

      You can add more strings of LEDs in parallel to the existing strings. Just replicate the LED strings associated with each transistor and connect them in parallel with the existing LED strings. Make sure to add a 22 ohm resistor with each LED string….considering the supply to be 12V

      Reply
  2. Dipto says

    December 29, 2019 at 12:24 am

    Dear i want to run 250-300 LED by AC volt. What can i do sir ?? No flashing needed just need to Run… I am using 75 of each Red,Green,Blue,Orange. Thanx for understandin.

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    • Swagatam says

      December 29, 2019 at 1:04 pm

      Dipto, you can try the following circuit

      75 led string light power supply

      you can make 3 strings having 75 led on each string, put the string ends in parallel, and connect it with the above power supply output…..make sure to have a 33 ohm resistor in series with each string,

      And you can experiment with the nput capacitor value, try 0.47uF/400V or 1uF/400V until the rquired amount of illumination is achieved.

      WARNING: THE CIRCUIT IS NOT ISOLATED FOR MAINS AC, PROCEED WITH CAUTION….

      Reply
      • Dipto says

        December 29, 2019 at 11:34 pm

        I am not sure about the connection of String….

        2nd here have 2 capasitor which one i should experiment with??

        Please tell me clearly .. Sir

        Thanx Advance

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        • Swagatam says

          December 30, 2019 at 8:33 am

          Connect the LEDs in series with anode of one LED connecting with the cathode of the next LED…go on connecting in this way until you have a complete chain of 75 LEDs with anode and cathode as the end terminals of the chain…you can change the 0.33uF capacitor with other higher values to get higher illumination

          Reply
  3. Paul McGrath says

    November 23, 2019 at 10:06 pm

    you sure resistor values (222, 333, etc are accurate?) Should each R be tested? (to be sure the cascade is uniform?) Or does everything depend on rail (source) voltage?

    Reply
    • Swagatam says

      November 24, 2019 at 10:33 am

      Which are those resistors in the diagram, I can’t see any…

      Reply
  4. Sangit Ghosh says

    September 20, 2019 at 12:29 pm

    Dear Swagatam
    I would like to request you to make a circuit diagram for me. I have an AV receiver which has only one set of RCA input. But I have 3 devices to connect with it. It will be of grey help if you design a 3 input 1 output RCA switcher in low budget.
    Thanking you.
    Regards.
    Sangit.

    Reply
    • Swagatam says

      September 20, 2019 at 4:31 pm

      Dear Sangit, I am sorry I do not have AV switcher circuit with me at this moment! If possible I’ll try to find it and update it here!

      Reply

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