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    Electronics Help Needed Please (for a very special project)

    Thanks Alan for your extensive answer. A lot here for me to digest and think about. Time is on my side so that's a good thing.
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    Electronics Help Needed Please (for a very special project)

    Thanks for your extensive reply and the time you have spent to write it. It will take me a while to read and digest this, but thanks again.
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    Electronics Help Needed Please (for a very special project)

    Thanks for your concern. I've already got clearance from the Sextant for the design. The thing is, the cemetery is 'locked' when it's dark, not sure many people will see the blue glow, but that's not the point.
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    Electronics Help Needed Please (for a very special project)

    This is a special heart felt appeal. I made a number of picaxe projects with my son during his middle school years around 10 years ago. I now need to make just one more. My son passed away during the middle of last year aged just 22 and I've taken it on myself to make one last project with...
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    Can I control the brightness of 2 or more LED's with PWM?

    So, I have 330 Ohm resistors in line to the LED's. Is that an unsuitable value?
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    Can I control the brightness of 2 or more LED's with PWM?

    Sorry, maybe you misunderstood me in post #20 as I perhaps didn't explain well enough. When I meant 'directly', I mean that I connected the LED straight to the +ve and -ve sides of the 4.5v supply I'm using. This gives a much greater brightness than using an output from the chip. I did try...
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    Can I control the brightness of 2 or more LED's with PWM?

    Regarding the test, I regret that with the equipment I've used, I can not make PwmOut produce a LED brightness as bright as one powered directly. I've tried several combinations of LED's but all being identical pairs. I've switched the LED's round etc etc. I've no way of checking the actual...
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    Can I control the brightness of 2 or more LED's with PWM?

    Thanks, that explains things somewhat. I'll play around with this ratio in mind. I'm using the code you gave me a few posts up from this but comparing the brightness of a LED on an output using a 'high' command only.
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    Can I control the brightness of 2 or more LED's with PWM?

    Just to revisit this is I may. I've noticed that if I just use something like High B.2 then the LED is a certain brightness. However using PwmOut and PWDuty etc, whatever parameters I use for these functions I can never get more then about half the brightness for the LED that I get with just...
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    Can I control the brightness of 2 or more LED's with PWM?

    Yes, I've figured it all out hippy. Thanks very much for your help over the last week or so. Unfortunately it looks like I'll only have time to get one of these lotus flowers up and running now but next year we'll have all eight working and I'm sure they will look very nice. I've also learnt...
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    Can I control the brightness of 2 or more LED's with PWM?

    Duh, got it. I did say at the start that I'm very new to picaxe. And it's still dark!
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    Can I control the brightness of 2 or more LED's with PWM?

    I can't get the pre-processor to remain checked (compiler-options) as suggested elsewhere. I don't think I'm in blocky mode, says Logicator for PICAXE 6.1.0.0 I'm not sure how to start PE6 in a different more or which mode to use the pre=processor,
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    Can I control the brightness of 2 or more LED's with PWM?

    Ahhhh I can't see a rhyme or reason for this error!! And it's almost dark here too :) #Macro ShowLed( ledX, X, ledX_min, ledX_max, ledX_inc, ledX_ms, ledX_loop ) ^ Syntax error on line 64 at/before position 1 Error: syntax error
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    Can I control the brightness of 2 or more LED's with PWM?

    Thanks yet again. I've been tied up with other matters for the last couple of evenings. Now I can't wait for it to go dark and I can see the effect of this latest idea.
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    Can I control the brightness of 2 or more LED's with PWM?

    Thanks again for this excellent assistance again, most appreciated. Let me explain the situation I'm trying to resolve and I hope you find this of some interest. In Hastings. New Zealand I have a friend who works for the council and he organises a Chinese lantern festival each year; usually in...
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