LED-Wiz Button Dilemma too many buttons not enough ports... Ideas????

[Bender]

Let me 'splain....
No, there is too much. Let me sum up

Because of power limitations I can only use one LEDwiz which has 32 ports
here are the things I want to light up

7 button layout
2 pinball flipper buttons
3 buttons (coin, player 1, player 2)
spinner
trackball

so that is a total of 14 items I want light up, I want as many as possible to be RGB which use up 3 ports each so I figure I can do 10  possibly doubling up a couple (like player one and 2 to the same ports and the 2 flipper to the same port)

so my thinking is this right now is

7 button layout  RGB (21 ports)
Spinner            RGB (3 ports)
Trackball          RGB (3 ports)
Player 1 & 2     RGB (3 ports both buttons will be the same color as player 1)
Flipper buttons  B (1 port both will be the same color)
coin button       R (1 port)

that totals 32 ports

any input, opinions or ideas would be much appreciated

[Franco B]

What is limiting you on power? Can you not use a 5v tap from your PSU? That would allow you to use a 2nd LED Wiz.

Maybe you could use an LED Wiz and an LED Wiz+GP for your encoder for an extra 16 ports?

I think you are going to need a 5v tap anyway as if your LEDs pull ~25mA each you will exceed the USBs available 500mA even if you only have 7 of the RGBs (21 ports) on full intensity.

If you do only use one LED Wiz your doubling up seems like the logical approach to me.

[Bender]

I'm running it of a laptop battery and already have the USB ports full up

the LEDwiz+GP  is a good Idea but then I need something to run the trackball and spinner (I'm using a mini-pac now)

so do the RGB's pull ~25mA for each R,G,and B so they'd pull ~75mA if there set to white?

Does the LEDwiz+GP have a shift function? I have 18 dedicated inputs now but could get away with 16 dedicated and some shifted ones
does the GP feature even do keyboard functions looks like a gamepad encoder

[Franco B]

I see the problem with the power, I'm not sure what to suggest on this one 

Yeah if the LEDs are rated at 25mA then they would draw 75mA if they were set to white. I've been looking for the thread where I read it and found it [here].

I'm not sure about the shift function. I just had a look at the GGG site and the documentation but I couldn't see anything. Hopefully Randy or someone who knows will chime in.