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Offline neskweek

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I use those 18350 on the video because my olds 18650 test batterys were charging.
Right now I only have  IMR (Lithium Manganese Rechargeable) battery cell at home because as I vape , I need highdrain batteries.

ICR (Lithium Cobalt Rechargeable) batteries may hold more power but they have lower discharge current ratings.
For this application they should be ok to use too.

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I think I remember someone mentioning it before but would you mind drawing up a simple wiring diagram to see how you wired these?  Shouldn't you be able to run two strips in a parallel configuration with a 7.4 v pack?

Remember, they are not just LEDs, but a driver circuitry integrated. And they are not designed for floating supply. But hey, why would you want 7.4? You can have 2x3.7V for greater capacity.

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What about region-of-impact effects for, say FoC and lock-up or random-location blaster deflection effects along the string? Or am I getting ahead of myself with the Arduino's capabilities....?

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What about region-of-impact effects for, say FoC and lock-up or random-location blaster deflection effects along the string? Or am I getting ahead of myself with the Arduino's capabilities....?

*brain exlodes*

Certainly such gimmicks are in the realm of possibilities for neopixels, it's just a matter of programming. It's also not outside the Arduino's capabilities, but it's like with other aspects of lightsaber building: it's a bit about cram-fu, if you want to put in many things, you might run out of code space. But the situation is not so dramatic as with hilts (I speak from experience...:) )

I guess as people will start to build sabers with neopixels, we will see a lot of innovative ideas emerging, for code, for diffusing, for better supply concept etc. It's a new tecnology, thus plenty of opportunity to contribute.

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What about region-of-impact effects for, say FoC and lock-up or random-location blaster deflection effects along the string? Or am I getting ahead of myself with the Arduino's capabilities....?

*brain exlodes*

Based on my own personal experience and what I've seen other folks doing on the Arduino forums, this seems well within the capabilities of the Arduino + NeoPixel solution.

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For those interested in the technical details, I've made a characterization of the WS2812B type neopixel blade to obtain:
- current of the individual LEDs as a function of supply voltage
- subjective brightness as a function of supply voltage

The charts and measurement results can be found here:
http://github.com/Protonerd/DIYino/blob/master/Neopixels_Characterisation_report1.pdf

 

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