Hi Everyone,
Anyone know of an easy way to get power to an array (100+) of spinning LED's (and their Mcu's) in a display circuit ?
I was thinking of inducting the current through a setup of coils, but i cant find any good examples of this, and it will need a couple amps@5v dc.
Another suggestion was to run some AC through ball-bearings, but i wonder how this would hold up after being run for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 1800 rpm ... Any examples of this being used ? It doesnt sound too reliable to me.
I pulled apart a couple of little spinning led clocks, and found they had motors in them which also had a coil assembly for transmitting the power to the circuit above (kind of a contactless slip-ring. No Commutator).
This coil/induction setup was 'inside' the motor casing, so i dont think it was added by the display/clock manufacturer, which comes to my real question.
Where do these motors come from, i cant find them anywhere! :( does anyone have any tips for hunting these down ? (also i need something a little bigger than what i can find in a spinning led clock :) ).
Thanks for any help! Alex.