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evh347:

--- Quote from: Nephasth on March 27, 2012, 04:40:58 pm ---1) Correct.
2) If you want each RGB individually controlled, 10. If not, then it depends on how my you want to be shared controlled.
3) You can hook up all 32 RGBs to one LED Wiz, but you will lose the capability to individually control each LED.
4) Again, depends on how you control your LEDs. If all you want to do with your LED controller is to individually control your LEDs, I would recommend getting 2 PACLED64s, as they are cheaper per output. If you want to do other things above and beyond lighting LEDs (or want to light multiple LEDs from each port), then the LED Wiz would be the one to pick.
5)You don't need an LED controller for each player, you can assign any LED to any MAME input with LEDBlinky.
6)You can drill a hole in the base of the button. Size depends on what LED you use.
7) See #5.

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Yes, then it appears my math was correct...thank you.  I want to be able to control each button individually so I must assign 10 buttons (max) to each LED WIZ 32-port controller.  Hence, I need 4 LED WIZ 32-port controllers to complete the job. 

So if I have 10 buttons on LED WIZ #1...that leaves 2 ports available.
...then 10 more buttons on LED WIZ #2...that leaves 2 more ports available.
...then 10 more buttons on LED WIZ #3...that leaves 2 more ports available for now a total of 6 ports on those three LED WIZ's.
But I'll need more than those 6 ports if I eventually want to include my trackball upgrade which will require an additional 3 ports.
So...I install the remaining two buttons on LED WIZ #4, thus occupying 6 of those ports.  The trackball upgrade will use 3 more ports...

Which leaves me with a grand total of 29 available ports for future RGB installed buttons if I need them.

This all changes (I guess) if I select the NovaGem buttons which use PCB instead of RGB and each button only uses 2 output ports on an LED WIZ board rather than 3.

On Randy's advice, I also ordered 4 of those Euro Terminals to help keep the +5 wires tidy.  Hope I don't screw it up.

Sorry Randy for making you come here and answer me in emails too.  Anybody who says GGG uses poor communication is on crack!  ;)
RandyT:

--- Quote from: evh347 on March 27, 2012, 05:39:50 pm ---This all changes (I guess) if I select the NovaGem buttons which use PCB instead of RGB and each button only uses 2 output ports on an LED WIZ board rather than 3.

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The NovaGem 2 buttons use only one port on the LED-Wiz, but are the equivalent of 5 leds each.  If you opt for clear with RGB lighting, then you will be back to three.


--- Quote ---Sorry Randy for making you come here and answer me in emails too.  Anybody who says GGG uses poor communication is on crack!  ;)

--- End quote ---

No problem.  We miss a couple from time to time, but we do what we can.
evh347:
Got my LEDWIZ(s) x4 and 32 RGB LEDs from GGG yesterday and just wanna make sure I understand how to wire these up...

I intend to power my 32 RGB lights off of USB.

Off of the RGB LED boards, there are 4 wires...they are labeled R1, R2, and R3, the fourth looks like a ground?  And at the ends of these wires...none of them are labeled except the (ground?) is painted red.

What do the R1, R2, and R3 wires correspond to?  Colors?  And the fourth wire is what?

I'm assuming that I should insert R1 into LEDWIZ port #1, R2 into port #2, R3 into port #3 and the fourth wire with the red tip goes into +5 (or ground?)?

So far, I'm halfway wiring the first LEDWIZ up with each RGB doing exactly the same (except into the next available ports on the LEDWIZ) and I'm daisy chaining up the red tipped wires into a GGG Euro Terminal Port and then that goes to the +5.

Am I doing this correctly?  Thanks.
RandyT:

--- Quote from: evh347 on April 10, 2012, 11:03:11 am ---Got my LEDWIZ(s) x4 and 32 RGB LEDs from GGG yesterday and just wanna make sure I understand how to wire these up...

I intend to power my 32 RGB lights off of USB.

Off of the RGB LED boards, there are 4 wires...they are labeled R1, R2, and R3, the fourth looks like a ground?  And at the ends of these wires...none of them are labeled except the (ground?) is painted red.

What do the R1, R2, and R3 wires correspond to?  Colors?  And the fourth wire is what?

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The red marked wire goes to +5vDC.  These can all be connected together, and then to your 5vDC regulated source.  The other wires, starting with the one after the 5v wire, are Green, Red and Blue, in that order.   Once the 5v line is connected, you can test the colors to verify by touching that wire to ground.  I usually recommend that the wires be connected to the LED-Wiz in the order R, G, B, R, G, B, and so on.  But it doesn't make a lot of difference, as pretty much any of the apps which support RGB with the LED-Wiz, will allow you to map any of the outputs (even across multiple LED-Wiz's) to any button.

RandyT
evh347:
Randy,
Please disregard my emails yesterday...today, I just have these questions...

Do the white plastic spacer "standoffs" that came with each LEDWIZ go between the head of the mounting screws and the PCB board (on top) or between the PCB board and the object (my control panel) of which I'm mounting the PCB board to (underneath)?


--- Quote ---The red marked wire goes to +5vDC.  These can all be connected together, and then to your 5vDC regulated source.

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What is my "5vDC regulated source"?  Is that the the "USB +5v" port on the PCB?  <--that was my plan.  I have all the red tipped +5 wires going into the Euro Terminal and then I daisy chained them with the intent of running them all into the "USB +5v" terminal port on the PCB.  I probably made this job a lot harder on myself than it needed to be but I wired them together with what I had instead of going to Radio Shack.

Actually, when I look at the diagram in the documentation...it looks like this is exactly how this is supposed to be connected.  Just wanna make sure Randy.   ;)

Nothing plugs into the "Ground" terminal port on the PCB for my situation, correct?  

Could I wire one of the colored wire leads into the "Ground" on the PCB to test the color?

If I'm only planning on wiring up 32 GGG RGB LEDs plus (eventually) the trackball upgrade across 4 LED WIZ PCB boards running all that into a powered USB hub...I'm thinking that since I'm not adding any outside bulbs and everything is pretty much easy peasy...none of that applies to my situation because I'm not using any additional lamps and relays, or a "large number of LEDs".  I shouldn't need to utilize the "bank voltage select terminals" on the PCB, correct?  

Sorry Randy, I'm trying to be safe and ask questions...I'm nervous about turning this thing on and seeing smoke!
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