Hi again.
My mediacenter uses an old but well sounding amplifier. A while a go the lights illuminating the front of the amplifier died. Last night I totally lost patience with the gloomy look of my dark amplifier and ordered some blue LEDs (nowadays they have to be blue, don’t they 😉 ).
My first plan was simply to exchange whatever lighted up my amp. with the LEDs.
My first plan…
Then I changed that plan.
Ever since I put my mediacenter together I have tried to figure out how to control the volume on my amp. The problem is that it has a nice, soft sliding pot. with a fat feeling and I don’t want to remove it.
I like the pre-80-ish look on it and I don’t want to ruin that either (just to hot it up a little with the blue LEDs).
I think I will try to motorize that pot… I think. And I think I will do it with a serial connection to the mediacenter… I think… If I can… the mediacenter with its remote will control the amplifier and I won’t have yet another remote on my table, and the mediacenter can fade down the volume when it shuts down… nice.. If I can.
Well, well… My first step is to exchange the broken lamps with the blue LEDs anyhow… stay tuned.
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The LED operation went well… maybe to well. Those high effect LED’s really are _blue_. Well I asked for it. Blue I wanted and blue I got. Anyhow, it really shines in the dark.
