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RandyT:

They are about .4" x 1.1"   Overall height w/ LED is about .475"

I would be surprised if they didn't fit into just about anything.


RandyT

unclet:

I think I am going to stick with the solid Blue LED lights only (ie: no RGB ones for now), so ....

1) How many solid blue LED lights can I connect in parallel to the same one port on the LEDWiz using power from my PC's power supply?

2) I know I should connect multiple LED lights in parallel when using the same port on the LEDWiz, however, there are two ways to do this (see pics).

The first way is to attach all little wires from the LED lights together into the same port of the LEDWiz.

The second way is to have one set of wires coming from the LEDWiz port only and then attach all LED light wires to this main wire set.

If I use the "firstWay" then can I simply use "thin ribbon cable wire" for all LED light connections?

If I use the "secondWay" then should I use a thick (18/20 gauge) wire going into the port on the LEDWiz and then attach each wire of the LED light to this thick wire using a thinner wire (like ribbon cable wire)? 

Which way do you recommend is best and how should I connect the LED lights so I do not melt/damage anything?

3) I noticed there is a LEDWiz controller you sell which has 16 ports for LED lights and 16 ports for a keyboard encoder.   How do you configure this type of encoder?  Is there software included for the PC which I can bring up and map the appropriate keys or is there a text file which I can create to state the current key mappings?   Also, can I reconfigure the keyboard encoder "on-the-fly" when required (ie: reconfigure it by running a BAT file or something like this) or does it only get configured one time upon bring up?


Thanks for the information .....  I will be buying stuff, just trying to figure out what I need for sure

Green Giant:

"32 uniquely controllable outputs and up to about 500 Hi-Output LEDs per board (15+ per output, external power source required for this type of operation)"

1.  Looks like you could connect at least 15 led's to a single port in parallel assuming you provide the external power.

2.  That all depends on where the led's are going to be placed.  Either way will work, but do you want to run individual wires from each led to the ledwiz, even if so, the slots aren't that big.  You will need a single junction wire to attach all the led wires together and then into the ledwiz.  But either way will work as long as you can connect them in the ledwiz slots.  Do whats the least work for you.

3.  The ledwiz controller you speak of is seen as two separate things by your computer.  It will show up as an ledwiz with just 16 ports, and it will be a windows gamepad with 4 joystick directions and 12 buttons.  They are probably standard inputs always, but you could easily reconfigure the buttons using joy2key.

Why are you looking to reconfigure the keymappings anyways?

unclet:

1) Excellent ... thanks

2) I assumed if I attached about 5 LEDs in parallel to one port on the LEDWiz and used ribbon cable (ie: "thin" cable) to attach them, then all 5 wires together would be able to go into the one port in the LEDWiz.   My real question for this point is whether using thin wire or thick wire would be better for the "First way" or "Second way" wiring types ..... or perhaps it does not matter.   I just do not want to melt thin wire if I have a lot of LED lights connected to one port in the LED Wiz.   I think I read something about wires melting from Randy (?) somewhere .... dont remember where though.  Thought I would ask to make certain everything was ok and no damage would result.

3) I guess I was more curious as whether the encoder could be remapped instead of me having to do this right now.   I probably do not have to remap it, you are right.



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