LED wiring noob needs help! Toss me a bone please. (LED-Wiz+GP)

[Dazz]

Ok, I haven't really been much into the LED scene.  I picked up several 5v LED's to replace the bulbs in my coin door and several other buttons on my pincab.  I am trying to do a test wiring to see how I'm going to get everything wired into my cabinet.  I've wired up a single LED to my LED-Wiz+GP, I've installed both the LED-Wiz app and also LedBlinky, but I can't seem to get any illumination from the LED.

This is how I currently have the LED wired. 

I have wires going from the USB + 5v to voltage Bank 1-8 then from bank 1-8 to the - on the LED.  From the + on the LED to input port 1 on the Led-Wiz.



Right now I just want this LED to turn on and stay lit.  There must be something simple that I am missing. 

Any tips?

[HaRuMaN]

Right now I just want this LED to turn on and stay lit.  There must be something simple that I am missing. 

Any tips?

Wire it directly to your PC power supply 5V and skip the LED-WIZ.

[HaRuMaN]

Or fix your wiring.   

Wire the LED Neg to the ground, and the LED Pos the the USB +5V right next to it.  Ignore the bank voltage, and port 1.

[Dazz]

Right now I just want this LED to turn on and stay lit.  There must be something simple that I am missing.  

Any tips?

Wire it directly to your PC power supply 5V and skip the LED-WIZ.

But that would be defeating the purpose as I will eventually be using the LED-Wiz features once I get my RGB EI2's in.  If I don't troubleshoot this now then I'll have to later.

Or fix your wiring.   

Wire the LED Neg to the ground, and the LED Pos the the USB +5V right next to it.  Ignore the bank voltage, and port 1.

Again, that would be defeating the purpose...

[HaRuMaN]

Well, in any case, you don't need the voltage bank for what you are doing.

Just wire to #1, and ground.

[RandyT]

I have wires going from the USB + 5v to voltage Bank 1-8 then from bank 1-8 to the - on the LED.  From the + on the LED to input port 1 on the Led-Wiz.

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Right now I just want this LED to turn on and stay lit.  There must be something simple that I am missing. 

Any tips?

Yep.  Flip the connections to the LED around.  You have the polarity wrong.

RandyT

[Dazz]

I have wires going from the USB + 5v to voltage Bank 1-8 then from bank 1-8 to the - on the LED.  From the + on the LED to input port 1 on the Led-Wiz.

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Right now I just want this LED to turn on and stay lit.  There must be something simple that I am missing.  

Any tips?

Yep.  Flip the connections to the LED around.  You have the polarity wrong.

RandyT

Doh!  Now that I look at it; it makes sense.  For some reason I was thinking that wiring was similar to a button switch.  The + would go to the inputs and the LED-Wiz just controlled the voltage going to each and the ground was common.  I guess with LED's the +5v is the common.  Makes sense now.  I'm such a noob when it comes to lighting.

I now have from the USB + 5v to voltage Bank 1-8 then from bank 1-8 to the + on the LED.  From the - on the LED to input port 1 on the Led-Wiz

However, I'm still not getting anything illumination since I switched polarity.  Is there a setting or something in the Led-Wiz app that I am missing?

[RandyT]

However, I'm still not getting anything illumination since I switched polarity.  Is there a setting or something in the Led-Wiz app that I am missing?

It should be working now.  Make sure the LED is actually alive by touching the minus side to the outside metal shell of the USB connector on the LED-Wiz.  This should cause it to light.

If it does, then make sure the LED-Wiz+GP is recognized by the system (should show in the gaming controls section of the OS).  Then make sure the software sees it and is issuing the command properly.

RandyT

[Dazz]

However, I'm still not getting anything illumination since I switched polarity.  Is there a setting or something in the Led-Wiz app that I am missing?

It should be working now.  Make sure the LED is actually alive by touching the minus side to the outside metal shell of the USB connector on the LED-Wiz.  This should cause it to light.

If it does, then make sure the LED-Wiz+GP is recognized by the system (should show in the gaming controls section of the OS).  Then make sure the software sees it and is issuing the command properly.

RandyT

I tested the LED and and it works.  I also tested the volts with my milti-meter and I am definitely getting 5v in the correct places.  If i touch the - to the ground and + to the 5v the LED does light.

The LED-Wiz is recognized by Windows 7 x64.  I hooked up a button to the button ports and the button is seen in the gaming controls config.

It's probably the software part that I am not getting right...  How do I "make sure the software sees it and is issuing the command properly"?  I went into the editor and had the led setup to act as NUMLOCK.  I set numblock as 1 and when I hit numblock on the keyboard it lights in the program, but the led does not.

[RandyT]

It's probably the software part that I am not getting right...  How do I "make sure the software sees it and is issuing the command properly"?  I went into the editor and had the led setup to act as NUMLOCK.  I set numblock as 1 and when I hit numblock on the keyboard it lights in the program, but the led does not.

I haven't tested the keyboard LED emulation in the demo program under Win7.  Go into the animation editor and click on the output you have it connected to and see if it lights that way.

[Dazz]

I finally got this to work...  For some reason it appears that the LED-Wiz stopped responding.  I saw it on my Game Settings and could go in and test the buttons and everything.  However, the LED's still wouldn't work.  I unplugged the LED-Wiz and the computer still showed it active and I was still able to go into the game controller settings for it.  Something just didn't seem right as when you remove a USB device the computer should release it.  But for some reason it wasn't...  I then re-booted the computer, plugged the LED-Wiz back in and now everything appears to be working correctly.

Can't wait to get my EI2 and RGB LED's!