RC Lights control system

Basic feature list:

• Two On/Off (PWM) outputs (fronts lights and rear lights)
• Two inputs (radio signal) (engine, and lights switch)
• One setup button.

More descriptive feature:

The system captures the engine level, and switch on the rear lights when breaking. The lights switch (on a 3rd chanel) allows to switch on/off the front lights and the rear lights at 30% power (night mode).

The current software works for a RC Lights control system.

However, the hardware platform could be retrofited for any uses cases requirering 2 PWM outputs and 2 IN/OUT radio signal channels. It is based on a PIC 12F1840, programmable directly in C (I used MPLABX for this project...)

Some hardware details:

• MCU is a PIC12F1840, low power
• MCU powered at 3.3V linear regulator (ideally LDO to support low BEC)
• The two output have BS170 (N-Mosfet) supporting up to 500mA continuous load

The PCB is single face, with through hole components. It could be easily be converted int a surface mount PCB, thus reducing further the size of the PCB (basically the size of the button+connector). Please let me know if you are interested...

Here is an export of the schematic (the sources files are in Eagle format in the hw directory).

The full system, assembled and under test on my TB-04 Chassis...