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RGB Drive wiring - some questions for a newbie!
buks:
Paul,
apologies for the late reply - got your PM then went down with a terrible cold !
Anyway, you may have advanced somewhat but I thought I'd throw this in :
I have the first 3 buttons for each player as RGB then the next 3 either red or blue (to match the joystick colours).
So my Ledwiz is wired thus :
PL1 Button 1 - Ledwiz sockets 1, 2 and 3
2 - 4, 5 and 6
3 - 7, 8 and 9
4 - 10 - just the "red" wire - all others taped off and loose (except 5V)
5 - 11 - ditto
6 - 12 - ditto
PL2 Button 1 - Ledwiz sockets 13, 14 and 15
2 - 16, 17 and 18
3 - 19, 20 and 21
4 - 22 - just the "blue" wire - all others taped off and loose (except 5V)
5 - 23 - ditto
6 - 24 - ditto
Trackball 25, 26 and 27
Mouse Left 28
Mouse right 29
Admin 1 30
Admin 2 31
All the "5V" wires are twisted together and go into the +5V hole on the ledwiz. I have the jumper attached and no wires at all in the GRND hole. Connected via USB.
Hope this helps - hopefully no one posts that I'm putting my life in danger by touching the buttons ..... :)
Seen some other posts from you regarding your hunt for wires - I got all of mine from Ultimarc but then I got the Ipac and Optipac from there too.
Good luck !
Buks
pboreham:
Cheers Buks - over the last few days I've got most of the answers I need...
The LEDWiz info is most helpful! Whats the best way to connect the 5V? I've just brought a soldering iron, some solder and some electrical tape! If I twist all the wires and dab a bit of solder on them, will they connect into the board, or is that going to be too large?
Anyway, thanks for the help - will give you a shout if I get stuck.
Sorry to hear about the cold too! :dizzy:
pboreham:
Waaahoooo! Wired up the first LED control tonight and it works no problems!
The look on my girlfriends face when I presented her my pulsing coloured ball! :applaud:
Seriously, it looks fab - so cool. Got to get the hand of the LEDWiz software now - any tips, or just stick to MaLa plug-ins?
Thanks again guys! :notworthy:
buks:
Paul,
The ledwiz software from ggg is just for creating your own animations. It sort of works but you cant edit what you've saved so its a bit of a pain. All my animations and button lighting come from the mala plugin by loadman and edge - theres another one called ledblinky but I dont use that one. Its dead easy to setup - you tell it which loedwiz terminals are associated with each button and what colour each terminal is. That way you can "force" it to only light up a single colour for your player buttons - PL1 are all red, PL2 are all blue on my setup - this doesnt seem to affect the animations as all my rgb's seem to "pulse" like they should.
Randy at GGG has posted a "dancing to music" ledwiz thingy which is on the software forums somewhere.
As for the 5V's - I wrapped about 5 or 6 together and wrapped that to a single wire (covering in tape). Ended up with 3 or 4 wires which is mucho easier to put in the +5V terminal thingy. One day I may go back to it a use solder - not sure about my skillz though :)
Buks
pboreham:
Cheers Buks - I'll look out for the Plugins.
Think the wire will be ok - its so thin, but I've not twisted any together yet, so cannot see if it will 'grow' - sure it will be fine! I've got the solder stuff, so may as well use it!