One of our grandsons had gone to see a circus and turned up at our place with little hand held fan with LED’s on the blades, pretty cool... which gave me the idea of making a rotating LED tree?
With a visit to a local aluminium supplier, a few parts off of eBay and an old B&D cordless drill that I had, I assembled it and gave it a run last weekend.
I put a speed controller on the drill and tried it at a few speeds, but flat out looked to be the best (~250RPM) The slip rings are rated to a max of 500RPM.
I just added some RGB strips to the edges on one side with separate circuits for bottom mid and top, they were just running on the FUN on the controller for the test.
I’m not sure if it will make the display this year?? I really just made it to see if it would work. It’s not something you could mount at ground level, so I could put it on the garage roof maybe, I’ll see.
2016 08 27 18 37 09 - YouTube
With a visit to a local aluminium supplier, a few parts off of eBay and an old B&D cordless drill that I had, I assembled it and gave it a run last weekend.
I put a speed controller on the drill and tried it at a few speeds, but flat out looked to be the best (~250RPM) The slip rings are rated to a max of 500RPM.
I just added some RGB strips to the edges on one side with separate circuits for bottom mid and top, they were just running on the FUN on the controller for the test.
I’m not sure if it will make the display this year?? I really just made it to see if it would work. It’s not something you could mount at ground level, so I could put it on the garage roof maybe, I’ll see.
2016 08 27 18 37 09 - YouTube