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| Franco B:
I spent the whole of today wiring up the LEDs in my test CP for my cocktail which consisted of soldering resistors to 17 LEDs, daisy chaining the cathodes, running wires from the anodes, wiring up two 15 pin dubs and then soldering the wires from the d subs to the anodes. I was really happy that I had managed to get it finished and just bought a bottle of wine to drink whist I started sequencing some LED animations. I had a look at the installation instructions for any thing to do with software installation and my eye wandered over to the wiring diagram... To my horror I realised Ive completely ---fouled up beyond all recognition--- up and wired the LEDs as common cathodes instead of common anodes :angry: For some reason I had got it in my head that the LED wiz worked off a common cathode, doh! This means pretty much all of my wiring today has been a waste of time. I can still use the wired d'subs but I'm going to have to completely redo all the LEDs in the CP. To make matters worse, in a moment of panic I thought that the three LED Wiz enclosures I had made would be useless too. Its no biggy though, I just need to change my common ground connection to the USB 5v output and bridge it to the input. Such a shame as was really looking forward to seeing the CP lit up at least :'( Oh well, I'll take the panel into work tomorrow morning and rewire whilst my machine is running. Its a good job I had a look before connecting them to the PC too. So lesson of the day kids, always read the instructions! Well I think this wine is going to slip down a little faster now, I'm off to vent my frustrations on COD4. |
| ChadTower:
That sucks, but take this lesson from it... ...next time drink the wine first. |
| rackoon:
I cant count how many times I got a small bottle of vodka so I could have a few martinis later that night and started sipping on the bottle while building my cocktail cab and look at it the next day and think "WHAT THE HECK!" :hissy: Somehow it looked good when I was doing it. :dunno |
| Orclord:
That's what you get for being a wine drinker..... :cheers: |
| Franco B:
Well I did have a couple of Grolsch's whilst doing it (it is my day after all and bars were open sometime in the world at the time ;) ) Mabye I should change it to wine 1st and beer afterwards :cheers: |
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