Brads Electronic Projects Forum

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Hi Brad, I was wondering as the hall effect sensor is spinning is it ON by that I mean producing a V out and when it passes over the magnet it is temporarily turned OFF (no V out) then ON again. Or is the hall effect sensor OFF (no V out) for the majority of the rotation and when it passes over the ...

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Hi Brad,

My POV display is working well but I get a flicker of ~16Hz of the image or text as is moves.

Do this mean I need a faster motor, or can I change the LED on/off times to get rid of the flicker.

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Hi Brad, while I was rebuilding my pov display I suspected that the hall effect sensor was not working properly ( cheap off ebay) so I bought a better model of sensor the Allegro A1203. All is now working well and the image is scrolling! I would like to thank you very much for taking the time to pos...

Sorry for the late reply as I was moving my pov display to take a picture I knocked it off the desk! Will get back to you as soon as I have fixed it!!

Hi, I have followed the fantastic instructions on http://www.instructables.com/id/The-One-Chip-Spinning-RGB-POV-Display-with-conve/ to build a pov display. However, I could not get hold of a PIC 18f4680 microcontroller so I used the PIC 18f4620. Everything seems to be working fine but when I display...