Selfmade Sequential Shift Light Options

[Hafkai]

It´s not the most usefull thing but i just felt the urge to build something like this .... the core of this little project is a Arduino Micro, a very small but capable microcontroller board. I´m not a fan of huge shift lights that go on all of a sudden so i tried to build a sequential shift light myself, it took me some time to get the Arduino to do anything without any programming knowledge but i somehow managed to make it work

This is the outcome:

Arduino Micro Shift Light

Test setup



I used my mini DSO as signal generator, a wonderful little tool.

[Hafkai]

It is really impressive, good work. I have a question, where to get the rpm signal?

I took the rpm signal from my EMS Motorsport ECU but you can take any signal that changes with rpm, ignition or injector signals should work. With the stock ignition system you can simply take the signal wire that feeds the tach.

The only thing is, I would have to program it to use all the individual LED's and not have it jump to doubles, after the green, like you currently have it.
I wouldn't have the blues in there either. Probably just have 3 green, 2 yellows, 2 red, and no extra ones for blue, but have all them flash blue when it's at the set shift point.

Should be no problem as long as you have enough output pins