10 LED voltage meter - LM3914

[yano]

I was looking around for a good solution for the mixer I'm building's level display, and I stumbled accross this little beauty:

http://www.national.com/pf/LM/LM3914.htm

This is an IC that you connect 10 LEDs to, and then it lights them up sequentially based upon a given signal, low, and high voltage. Definitly useful in my case, and could have some cool applications.

[mikeb]

Checkout the schematics of the infinitphase at my site (prophecysound.com) for one way the 3914 can be used.

Mike

[yano]

Yeah, I saw some of those schematics around the same time, maybe it was subliminal inspiration, heheh.

[ExpAnonColin]

Yeah, the LM3914 rocks my socks.  Really good for making anything sort of voltage into light and thus into resistance.

-Colin

[The Tone God]

I played with those. Fun stuff. You can also use a bunch of comparitors with the inputs wired in series and the outputs in parallel. Cheap and easy voltage display.

Andrew