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GPIO LED Strips Dimmer ?

Posted: Sunday 05 March 2017 17:17
by Trax01
Hello,

I have a question and nothing found about it only over wifi. I would like connect on the GPIO pin from my rpi a led stip over a TIP120. Now my question its possible to dim these leds ? on/off is no problem but direkt dimming i have noting found.
Sorry for my bad english !

Re: GPIO LED Strips Dimmer ?

Posted: Sunday 05 March 2017 17:39
by SweetPants
As far as I know, dimming is done using PWM (Puls Width Modulation), so i assume if you can let your GPIO do PWM, you can.

Re: GPIO LED Strips Dimmer ?

Posted: Sunday 05 March 2017 19:54
by Trax01
okay i know the Raspberry Pi can pwm but i don“t know how I can do this !