Damon Ferguson

Sorry it took so long to respond, wife and grandchild keeping me pre-occupied. I know the el panel is functional as I have bench tested it. It's a 5 inch Round EL panel I ordered from Ellumiglow with a 12 inverter specific to that size. I'll have to disassemble the housing to get the board out and take some pictures so you can see what I have done, probably easier for me to help explain but in a nutshell, I use a 2 pin terminal to connect the light. My thinking is there should be 12 volts at the...

Hi Quick question: what would cause power to no longer output to the EL panel? I have built 2 of these these already using the exact components as per the manual. Worked wonderful for at least a year and a half but then just one day decided to not power on the EL panel. I switched out arduino and still the same thing. Servo control still functions fine. I have no problem building another as it takes me less time to do that than de-soldering, investigating and replacing the bad component. What do...

An INDI driver would be awesome

OK, so i have resolved the hot zener diode issue. I swapped out the 15 ohm resistor for a 51 ohm. Voltage is sitting around 9.2v and the zener is just warm. Everything seems to work and I am satisifed.

Thanks for getting back with me. I setup a bench test for the 1N5346B zener with a 15 ohm res, a 10A10 rectifier diode and a 12vdc power supply. Voltage out was 9.4 something volts. It still gets very hot. I measured (not very accurately) (with a food thermometer) a temp of about 145 degrees F. I have it plugged in still and waiting to see if it melts. I will try the varspeedservo once I can figure out the zener. Oh and by the way, I would be very intrested in when you get around to using a stepper...

Hello I was wondering if it is normal for the zener diode withing your circuit is suppose to generate heat to the point where you can't touch it without buring yourself? I don't really recall it doing that on the initial build and I didn't realize it until much later when I decided to rebuild the build and I removed it from its temporay case and upon hadling it, I hard to jerk my hand away as it was so hot. I do have another question regarding the coding: Is there a way or how do you code it so the...