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Announcements => Third party => Topic started by: ArndtB on March 29, 2017, 12:27:45 pm

Title: Project: LED Calculator (LedCalc)
Post by: ArndtB on March 29, 2017, 12:27:45 pm: Hello together,

I want to share my small Tool LED Calculator (LedCalc) with you, realized with FreePascal and Lazarus, licensed under GPL-3.

LED Calculator (LedCalc) is a small, cross-platform graphical tool to calculate resistor values for single LEDs. Helpful for beginners to calculate and choose the correct resistors for own electronical projects and experiments with light-emitting diodes (e.g. for Arduino, Raspberry Pi or something else). This program was written in FreePascal 2.6.4 supported by the IDE Lazarus 1.4.4.

http://git.braier.net/ArndtB/LedCalc (http://git.braier.net/ArndtB/LedCalc)

I hope you like the program and it will be useful for you. For your suggestions, praise and criticism as well as any kind of feedback I am always open, please write me here, on GitHub or an email at dev@braier.net.

Thank you for your Feedback :)
Title: Re: Project: LED Calculator (LedCalc)
Post by: wp on March 29, 2017, 12:58:24 pm: Nice.

An interesting extension for the engineer would be: You will not be able to buy a resistor having exactly 193.33 ohms, you only can buy resistors with discrete values. The series E24 with a tolerance of 5%, for example, has values 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.5, 1,8, 2.2 etc. (see http://www.logwell.com/tech/components/resistor_values.html (http://www.logwell.com/tech/components/resistor_values.html)). Your program could select the nearest value from this series, and calculate the variation of power loss and LED current within the tolerance limits.
Title: Re: Project: LED Calculator (LedCalc)
Post by: Edson on March 29, 2017, 07:38:48 pm: Good.

And yes, the resistors have standar values, so it would be better if the program gives this standar value (closer) and standar values of power.
Title: Re: Project: LED Calculator (LedCalc)
Post by: avra on March 29, 2017, 10:20:44 pm: Cute ;)
Title: Re: Project: LED Calculator (LedCalc)
Post by: Graeme on March 30, 2017, 04:47:19 pm: Very nice ,and will definitely be useful for beginners. Thanks for sharing.
Title: Re: Project: LED Calculator (LedCalc)
Post by: eny on March 30, 2017, 09:03:46 pm: Quote from: avra on March 29, 2017, 10:20:44 pm
Cute ;)
Hehe this is also what I thought.
Cute little program :D
Title: Re: Project: LED Calculator (LedCalc)
Post by: AnthonyTekatch on March 31, 2017, 12:18:19 am: Nice!

You might be able to remove the calculate button if any changes are made then automatically execute the calculate code.
Title: Re: Project: LED Calculator (LedCalc)
Post by: ArndtB on April 01, 2017, 01:49:19 pm: Hello together,

thank you all for your great feedback and proposals, I'm very happy about that. I will take this points and try to implement them :)

Many greetings and have a nice day :)
Title: Re: Project: LED Calculator (LedCalc)
Post by: ArndtB on June 29, 2018, 05:39:50 pm: Hello together,

LedCalc has moved and is now available here:

http://git.braier.net/ArndtB/LedCalc (http://git.braier.net/ArndtB/LedCalc)
Title: Re: Project: LED Calculator (LedCalc)
Post by: fred1933 on June 29, 2018, 08:03:28 pm: Hello,
nice program, but be carefull Vf values are not all identical in a class of the same color. By exemple, you can find a blue Led with Vf=2.65V and another one with Vf=3.7V. In any case, it is always recommended to put a resistance in series with a led to limit the current and preserve the Led.