Control an external pic for on/of switching with renard etc dimming levels.

[Michael Sullivan]

Is there a way to use the different dimming levels from a renard to control another pic to give you a number of off/on channels instead of using extra channels on the renard.

example to have say 8 RGB LED's connected to a controller in series with each color pin connected to the first 3 channels to give you color control and dimming then use the 4th channel for controling a simple pic setup to swith each led on/off to sequence.

I am just interested to find out if this is possible as with the many levels of dimming you could build another type type setup fed from only 4 channels from the renard and 1 cat5 to then control multipul RGB LED's.

Michael

[ErnieHorning]

The answer to the first question is no. The Renard software doesn’t work that way.

I’m not sure what your proposed application is. The best I can tell is that you want to use two PIC micros with special code in them to control 8 LED’s., which you can do now with two PIC micros with current code.

Can you draw a schematic of what you’re thinking? You can even draw it in Paint if that’s all that you have.