USS Voyager lightning start up sequence

Dezmond76 · Post by **Dezmond76** » Tue Dec 04, 2012 4:05 am

Hello,

I making a lightning circuit for Voyager and i want to when the power switch is flipped instead the whole model lights up instantly, to light up gradually.

What would be the proper start up sequence:
1. red and green navigational lights
2. after 1 second the strobe lights
3. after 2 seconds the interior lights and the deflector starts slowly to ramp up
4. after 3.5 seconds the impulse engines
5. after 4 seconds the bussard collectors starts slowly to ramp up
6. then after 2 second the blue lights from the nacelles slowly ramp up
7. and finally the red lights from the torpedo lunching tubes

What do you think is this ok?

Max Nex · Post by **Max Nex** » Tue Dec 04, 2012 7:00 pm

the torpedo tubes only glow when they are firing,not all the time.

manu · Post by **manu** » Thu Dec 06, 2012 6:34 am

For the voyager thas not entirely true

http://www.phoximages.de/images-i5051bbh8mk.jpg
http://www.phoximages.de/images-i5052bdwg84.jpg

@Dezmond Ok is what you like. I'd rather fire up internal lighting, then nav and strope lights thn impulse and finally warp. How are you gonna do this?

Max Nex · Post by **Max Nex** » Thu Dec 06, 2012 9:19 am

manu wrote:
http://www.phoximages.de/images-i5051bbh8mk.jpg
http://www.phoximages.de/images-i5052bdwg84.jpg

both are images of the CGI version.
I would not use either as a reference.

Dezmond76 · Post by **Dezmond76** » Thu Dec 06, 2012 2:56 pm

The general idea is when the button is pressed the model lights up gradually, until the lights up sequence is over the button is blocked. After that if the button is pressed fires torpedo and if the button is pressed about 2 seconds then the whole process goes backwards and the model shutdowns. All that thing i will do with a PIC16F628A microcontroller. All i need to do is to write a program for the PIC.

otacon1001 · Post by **otacon1001** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 6:15 pm

I think this would be great idea, only thing i would suggest is have the interior lights come on gradually over about 2 seconds like in the episode "Night" Season 5 episode 1

Dezmond76 · Post by **Dezmond76** » Sat Mar 16, 2013 8:49 am

Here is some little progress:

http://s1230.beta.photobucket.com/user/ ... b.mp4.html

Max Nex · Post by **Max Nex** » Sat Mar 16, 2013 6:38 pm

neat !

chiver · Post by **chiver** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 1:18 pm

i would like to do something similar with my voyager, just with out the torpedos

Dezmond76 · Post by **Dezmond76** » Mon Apr 22, 2013 2:25 pm

If you interested i can give you the code for the pic and the schematic when i draw it.

chiver · Post by **chiver** » Mon Apr 22, 2013 2:41 pm

that would be great, thanks. im very new to this so its all a learning exprence for me

Ziz · Post by **Ziz** » Mon Apr 22, 2013 4:27 pm

otacon1001 wrote:I think this would be great idea, only thing i would suggest is have the interior lights come on gradually over about 2 seconds like in the episode "Night" Season 5 episode 1

If you're still working on this, I agree with otacon. Work from the inside outwards - interior lights first, then start firing up everything else. Impulse and warp engines close to last.

chiver · Post by **chiver** » Tue Apr 23, 2013 6:48 am

how would you get the lights to come on slowly?

Dezmond76 · Post by **Dezmond76** » Wed Apr 24, 2013 1:50 pm

Ziz wrote:
otacon1001 wrote:I think this would be great idea, only thing i would suggest is have the interior lights come on gradually over about 2 seconds like in the episode "Night" Season 5 episode 1
If you're still working on this, I agree with otacon. Work from the inside outwards - interior lights first, then start firing up everything else. Impulse and warp engines close to last.

Yes i still working on it, the order of the sequence is easy to change.
And for the interior lights to come on gradually over about 2 seconds like in the episode "Night" Season 5 episode 1, its a little bit tricky. I guess the proper solution would be to divide the whole model into segments and light block each segment of each other. Each segment has to have LED inside and that is to big challenge for me