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Alright. If your neons didnt already come with a sound modulator (underbody, or Interior neons regaurdless) You can go to your local instalation, custom shop, and buy a modulator that will pick up ONLY the bass vibrations of your audio system. With no subs you'll have to set the sensitivity high, which may cause them to go off if somthing else impacts them more than your little fac. system. Also this can be quite expensive if you dont do it yourself. the modulator has to be wired to the positive wire entering every neon on the car. This is done by snipping each line going to each neon, reconecting the negitive directly, then running a line from the now cut incoming power line to the in sorce of the modulator, and from the out sorce of the modulator back to the neon's incoming positive power line. A shortcut (depending on how you power these) might work by taking the incoming sorce powerline from your battery and running it from your battery to the incoming sorce of your modulator and then back to the power sorce wires for the neons. Make sure you have enough wire to run from the battery to the inside of your car (this is where you want to put the modulator, preferably in the back somewhere close, about a foot away, from your speaker, mounted in the trunk in the center of your 6 by 9s is the ideal location) then you still need enough wire to run your output from the modulator to the main power line of the neons. ---- then adjust your sensitivity (there will be a nob) to where the neons only come on when there is a drum beat or a bass roll. There are lots of other ways to do this if you had a decent amp. then you can get the neons to do all kinds of tricks but thats for another day. and it wont work hooking it up to your deck then the neons will come on every time you turn your sterio on and wont blink or shut off unless your sterio is off. if you need anything else or a diagram on a few neon hookup tricks I'll give you my e-mail. Please dont missuse it, but if you didnt understand this gimme a holler. If you see it in picture form it will seem so easy!! p.s. around here I can normaly add on about 50$ for this. Depending on the person Im doing it for, and takeing my time to wire it up the long way putting a fuse on every line (not recomended for you to do, it will cause you major headache, because this requires special fuses and fuse jacks.) -- Ray Corzone ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ray Corzone's Profile: http://www.caraudioforum.com/vbb3/me...p?userid=35850 View this thread: http://www.caraudioforum.com/vbb3/sh...d.php?t=222818 CarAudioForum.com - Usenet Gateway w/over one million posts online! |
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Making neons flicker to music
hello
first off, ill say im not completely serious about neons, or car audio, or anything like this. i have a completely crap standard tape/radio unit that probably came with the car from day one (its a 1984 corolla). i also just added neons to it the other day, for lols and whatnot. being the geeks we are in this flat, after we were done installing them, we thought a brilliant thought - how would we go about making the neons flicker to music? yea, the stereo is hardly loud enough to play outside the car, but its more of a proof of concept thing than anything anyway. and i might get a better audio system eventually too. my first thought was to wire them to a transistor connected to the audio output, but this might actually cause the lights to just stay on until the stereo is turned off. is there any way to introduce a threshold current to this, and if so, what kind of electronic component would i need? and if possible, make it fine tunable? |
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hello
first off, ill say im not completely serious about neons, or car audio, or anything like this. i have a completely crap standard tape/radio unit that probably came with the car from day one (its a 1984 corolla). i also just added neons to it the other day, for lols and whatnot. being the geeks we are in this flat, after we were done installing them, we thought a brilliant thought - how would we go about making the neons flicker to music? yea, the stereo is hardly loud enough to play outside the car, but its more of a proof of concept thing than anything anyway. and i might get a better audio system eventually too. my first thought was to wire them to a transistor connected to the audio output, but this might actually cause the lights to just stay on until the stereo is turned off. is there any way to introduce a threshold current to this, and if so, what kind of electronic component would i need? and if possible, make it fine tunable? A voltage divider (with one of the R's being a pot for adjustment) and a BJT would do the trick. Throw in a capacitor on the base to make it stay on for a little bit when it reaches threshold. You could make the circuit balanced so that it fired on each half of the waveform (+V and -V), but this shouldn't be necessary. You might want to put a pair of diodes in the front to prevent any signal getting back to the audio (due to the capacitor). |
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awesome, cheers guys, will give it a go.
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Making neons flicker to music
cheers guys it's really awesome Thanks.......
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Last edited by Terrybennett : December 10th 12 at 09:34 AM |
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