prrhorseshoecurve posted:Wow! Did you"home made"the fire flicker or use a commercial product? Are you using separate circuitry for the "table lamps" and the stove "fire flicker"? Inquiring minds want to know Hancock52!
Well, since you inquire so nicely here's the story:
1. It's far beyond my wit to put together the circuitry for the light effects. The flickering fire is a combination of Evan Designs and Ngineering LEDs and effects boards. The table lamps are separately powered through an Ngineering LED module which actually passes the current to some 15 LEDs, including various lights at either end of the dining compartment. Superb products, these boards; I swear by what these two suppliers provide.
2. And speaking of things superb, the power for the dining compartment lights comes from an AC-DC conversion module supplied by our very own Gunrunner John. This has adjustable output voltage and is far more compact and generally user-friendly than the module I originally sourced for this purpose on fleabay. GRJ's module is just visible on the far left of the next to last photo. Another (and even smaller) module he designed will convert AC track power for the kitchen lights.
3. The flicker effect is still too subtle for my liking and so I may add in another couple of bigger LEDs in the grill section of the big range unit but over the grill instead of under.
This is still an incomplete project not least because there is another operating feature to add but I'm not hinting at this stage what it is! (Especially in case it proves impractical.)
