Detecting pulsed LED I am trying to use an Uno to detect if an LED is on or not. Sounds simple, but I am tearing my hair out on this one, here is why.... This is a model railway application and I want to detect an LED being lit on the control panel showing how a route (points/turnouts) is set. The LED is lit by a point position indicator (www.blocksignalling.co.uk/index.php/points-position-indicator-ppi4-dc) which works perfectly but the LEDs are not permanently on when lit, even though they appear so, they are pulsed at around 8khz. I tried using opto isolators triggering an digital input on the Uno. They all happily detect 'no light' and the pin goes HIGH, but when the led is lit, the pin flucuates between 0 and 1 so not a true or stable LOW. I also made my own opto using a TCRT5000 with the leds pointing at eachother encased in shrinkwrap, using standard breadboard set-up which worked perfectly when powering the transmitter from the Uno, but same result when powered from the LED. Anyone out there got any ideas please?
Count HIGH values read for example in 2 ms. It should be zero if the LED is not lit and more then zero if it is lit.