Next, it was on to the marquee. I picked up a disk drive power extension cable from Radio Shack. I couldn't find just the molex connectors I needed, so this seemed like an easy way to avoid hacking up my power supply.
Since I only needed tow of the four wires, I cut off the section I needed (on the left)
And connected it to the wires running to the Nova Matrix LED's.
I then plugged it into the power supply matching up to the +5v wire
Turned it on and waited for the magic to happen...
All I got was two barely lit LED's on each side? Was it my power supply? Switched to another one and tried that. Nothing! Stumped for a few minutes and went on to the web site to check the specs on the LED's. It needs +12v
. For some reason, I really thought it was +5v. Well, better I under shot than over shot. Need to read directions better in the future.
Switched the wires to the correct ones and.......
There's the magic I was looking for!!!
The pictures really don't show how bright this thing really is.
Now to see how the marquee looks (hand held)
I was worried about the speakers being in the way, but it's so bright, that I don't need to worry about it. It looks great as is.
I know this is common stuff to most of the people out here, but this is my first one. And I have to say I was really excited to see this thing light up. I ran upstairs and made my wife come down to look at it. (She wasn't quite as excited as me - but she did like it)