@Harald Kapp, thanks for the suggestion but I did also say "...without using a dedicated digital potentiometer."
I don't have a digital potentiometer and I'd like to make this with more 'standard' basic (and also cheap) components.
Hi @bertus.
I tried a circuit similar to the one you suggested, and it's working great.
I used a NPN since I have so many, and I didn't use the 10K resister. I'm not sure why that's there?
Would you mind explaining why the 10K?
And does this circuit (this is what I actually built) have any...
Hi @bertus,
Thanks for the reply. Could you clarify where the transistor goes? Would it go between the LED driver's power and ISET pins? Or would it go between the circuit's VCC and the driver's V+?
I'm using an ESP32.
The microcontroller isn't connected to the LEDs directly, the connections are all via the LED driver which gives a more even lighting of the segments and a simpler interface than I could achieve without it.
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There are 2 ways to adjust the brightness.
First, I can control it in software - I can programmatically choose one of 16 levels of brightness by sending a value to the...