iPac Ultimate i/o - LED issues

[asadrian]

Hi everyone,  new here but building my second table top arcade controller.   First was cheap ebay buttons and joysticks but enjoyed building and using.  Nephews love it.  So going up a level with ultimarc products, Ultimate i/o, led buttons, trackball,etc. 

All the buttons work and have everything programmed and working in Launchbox and Bigbox.  Running a Win10 machine.  I am having strange issues with LEDs.  One button is stuck on green.  And NO LED power plugged in!!!  I also was messing with LEDblinky and plugs 1 -16 did nothing and 17 on worked as they should.  Again.....NO power connected to LED plug. 

When I plug in LED power, I don't get anything.  The default LED program does not work. 

I am very confused.  The LED plugs are all straight forward and not sure how I could have messed those up.  I'm at a loss.  Tried power from USB.  A 5v wall plug.  Tested the led's and they work from being wired directly to power.  So it is something in the board I am guessing? 

Thoughts or ideas would be appriciated....

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[lrdfoo]

I'm by no means a pro at this... I'm using the same board with a pi 4 setup. I'm powering my LED's with a wall wart plug that i bought that is plugged into the I-PAC.  how are you supplying power to the board?  is it supplying enough power to the board?

[asadrian]

Thanks for the reply.

I've tried every way I can think of except a direct plug.  Have an adaptor to the computer power plug (forgetting the name) to a USB.  Plugged USB into computer and into a wall plug (5V).  Split a USB cable to get the two power wires and tried connecting to the power cable included with the board.  All nothing.

And tested all options with the buttons to confirm I was getting power and all turned on directly wired.

All that said, I get the lights to work in certain pins with out any power supplied to the board on the LED plug. 

I am hoping it is something with the board.  Andy with Ultimarc got back to me and is sending a replacement.  Fingers crossed.  I don't know what else it could be.

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[lrdfoo]

I hope that works! 

Mine works but I’m using a pi 4 and can’t seem to get a program to work that will tell the board to turn the lights on.

[asadrian]

Me too....so far both Ultimarc and LEDBlinky customer support has been outstanding.  Recommend them to anyone getting into this.  I tried everything I could think of before reaching out, but both were quick to offer advice, solutions and in ultimarc's case, drop a replacement in the mail when the issues sounded out of the norm. 

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