newplumber
Senior Member
Hello to smarter then me friends
If you ever look at new electric fireplaces the flame affect on most is like someone spray painting red on a cardboard box
in other words looks great from the moon. I decided (two years ago) I am going to make a "real" looking flame so I tried everything my
simple mind would process like with amber leds and having pieces from tinfoil to wet toilet paper flash against it all of them looked like garbage
I then tried instead of having the leds reflect off something.. put the leds sideways in a flame like pattern of course being a behind the garage shed mechanic
this was no easy task but I did manage to make a interesting flame which looks almost ok
here is video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyGE-ogcikE
I will try to update this post after I test my next idea
the flame in the video uses 28 micro leds from ebay cost 10 dollars wait time from china = forever I think I used canoe shipping
1 picaxe 20m2 (best chip for plumbers)
4 -74hc595 drivers (all driven from westaust55 code)
1 real lighter (if your dissatisfied of the flame then use lighter for backup)
My main goal is to make a fireplace so real you dont want to touch it with leds and picaxe
your friend
who tries and tries
If you ever look at new electric fireplaces the flame affect on most is like someone spray painting red on a cardboard box
in other words looks great from the moon. I decided (two years ago) I am going to make a "real" looking flame so I tried everything my
simple mind would process like with amber leds and having pieces from tinfoil to wet toilet paper flash against it all of them looked like garbage
I then tried instead of having the leds reflect off something.. put the leds sideways in a flame like pattern of course being a behind the garage shed mechanic
this was no easy task but I did manage to make a interesting flame which looks almost ok
here is video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyGE-ogcikE
I will try to update this post after I test my next idea
the flame in the video uses 28 micro leds from ebay cost 10 dollars wait time from china = forever I think I used canoe shipping
1 picaxe 20m2 (best chip for plumbers)
4 -74hc595 drivers (all driven from westaust55 code)
1 real lighter (if your dissatisfied of the flame then use lighter for backup)
My main goal is to make a fireplace so real you dont want to touch it with leds and picaxe
your friend
who tries and tries