Green Flag, Caution Lights in Iracing Light Project

[shaneparish]

Hello everyone,

I am getting ready to work on a really fun project and I am needing some help from the community. I am in iRacing and I have 18-inch round traffic light inserts and I have 8-8 inch round green traffics light assemblies that I am going to buy and gut them to make a caution light and green light flag system on the roll cage on my simulator. Here is what I need to know.

Would I be better to buy led strip lights in the colors I need in a 12 volt if the board would handle 12 volt? I would much reater do this option ans it would look much better on my simulator. Please let me know what would better and easier.

1. Is there a way to simulate red flag conditions on pit road?

2. What board would I use to activate the caution lights to start flashing when the caution comes out then switch them off when caution is over? Will the same board turn on the green lights for green flag racing and keep them on until the race is over or until another caution comes out.

3. What is the largest size led bulb that I could run in my lights with the available board? Can I run all the lights (above) with 1 board or do I need to purchase more than one board?

4. If this is available could you please instruct me how to hook it up properly.

5. I am offering a cash help out reward if someone could help me out with my project.

You can answer here or email me at shaneparish08@yahoo.com

[Avenga]

The DLC-247 is the board which can control LED warning lights etc.

It is only 5v and it is only designed for small LED lights. You can use an additional 5v power supply but I am not sure what the amperage limit on the board is, but I would say that it won't be powerful enough to run anything larger than LED lights.

You could probably do something with relays. Have a bigger power supply running in to a relay then use the DLC-247 to trigger the relay.

[shaneparish]

The DLC-247 is the board which can control LED warning lights etc.

It is only 5v and it is only designed for small LED lights. You can use an additional 5v power supply but I am not sure what the amperage limit on the board is, but I would say that it won't be powerful enough to run anything larger than LED lights.

You could probably do something with relays. Have a bigger power supply running in to a relay then use the DLC-247 to trigger the relay.


Thanks for your help but do you know of a relay that would work for my project? I would really like to run a 12 volt converter so I could run as many led light strips as I wanted to. If you do not know of a relay do you know someone that could help me design this project?

Thanks

[Avenga]

Thanks for your help but do you know of a relay that would work for my project? I would really like to run a 12 volt converter so I could run as many led light strips as I wanted to. If you do not know of a relay do you know someone that could help me design this project?

Thanks

Something like this would work.



Something with a 5v input and a 12v load. So when the DLC-247 sends 5v it will trigger the relay which will send 12v to your lights.

Or you could use a MOSFET like this.

[shaneparish]

Is the dlc-247 board signal a 5 volt dc or 5 volt ac output?

Thanks

[Avenga]

Is the dlc-247 board signal a 5 volt dc or 5 volt ac output?

Thanks

5V DC output.

All the Symprojects boards are DC