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Noob looking for some help hooking up ledwiz to buttons.
briscos horse:
Thanks everyone!
Part of the problem was the buttons with built in LEDs that I am using are 12v.
The led wiz driven by the USB is 5v.
I wired up a bunch of batteries equaling 12v and the led worked fine.
I know I could also get 12v from a power supply but I am using a laptop to run my machine so I will just order 5v LEDs and then everything will be fine.
Thanks again
PL1:
--- Quote from: briscos horse on February 07, 2013, 11:53:44 am ---Part of the problem was the buttons with built in LEDs that I am using are 12v.
The led wiz driven by the USB is 5v.
--- End quote ---
The LED pic above is a 12v LED driven by USB 5v.
I've lit up 14 LED buttons and a trackball lighting circuit without a problem using USB 5v.
Bonus: This setup only draws ~81 mA. since I added an extra current limiting resistor.
Scott
briscos horse:
After seeing your post I just hooked up 6v batteries and it lit!!
When I get home after work I will try my ledwiz again.
briscos horse:
I finally got the leds working!
I wasn't able to hook them up to the banks on the led wiz because when i did they wouldnt light up. So for now only solid lights are working.
I guess more testing is needed or i need a voltmeter.
So far here is the progress: