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moose:
The way I read that diagram was that the +12v and ground from the ledwiz plugged to the pc power supply. But then what does the ground from the led itself plug to?

I have just one light I'm trying to activate.
I have ledwiz v3.
I plugged the board into the USB and configured it in atomic fe.
I have my light attached to USB +5v and output #1.
I test with my multimeter between the +5v and output 1 and get between 4v & 5v.

Just attaching the +12v to the Bank Voltage Select isn't giving me what I want, and attaching a black ground from the pc ps didn't help either. I'm just not understanding -exactly- what I'm supposed to do, and the diagram here isn't very clear for me. Attaching the +12v and the ground to the pc ps seems pretty apparent, but then how does the light attach?
loadman:

--- Quote from: TheShanMan on September 12, 2008, 09:00:52 am ---
--- Quote from: Ginsu Victim on September 10, 2008, 11:44:48 pm ---No, you need a Pac-drive or LEDwiz.

--- End quote ---

Wrong. An IPAC is supposedly able to do it as a caps/scroll/num lock led. How well it can do it I don't know - never tried.

--- End quote ---

I think the only 'gotcha' is you can't load much on it as the power comes from the motherboard.
Franco B:
Ok, connect the PSU yellow 12v cable to the bank voltage selector and the black ground cable to the external ground terminal.

You also need to run a wire from the same bank voltage select terminal to every LEDs anode. To do this I would run a single wire from the bank voltage selector to something like a busbar or linked terminal strip and then run a wires from the busbar/terminal strip to each LED. This will mean the LEDs are connected in parallel and you wont have to try and terminate a load of wires in the bank voltage selector terminal. (you will just have two wires, the 12v from the PSU and the wire going to the busbar/terminal strip.)

You then connect the cathode of each LED to the individual outputs on the LED wiz.

moose:
That's the ticket! Works perfectly now, thanks ^^
Franco B:
Ahh good, I had my fingers crossed!  ;D
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