| Main > Main Forum |
| Help! Wiring - LED WIZ & Electric ICE Buttons |
| << < (2/3) > >> |
| Avenger257:
Thank you very much for your quick replies... man I love this site! I am really excited to get this part finished! |
| Avenger257:
I received a message containing the following text: "hey I was just wondering how the rgb buttons worked out for you! I just read your post about supplying power to them and was interested if you ended up taping into your power supply or not. I am about to embark on my own project and want to figure out if I can just use powered usb hubs or the power supply." I wanted to reply to this here just in case anyone else wanted to know... I decided to just use the powered USBs that I have at this point (there are two USB hubs with several things plugged into them). All of the lights seem to work fine (4 LED Wiz's with 32 rgb buttons and a U-trak). I have used LEDBlinky and all of the buttons are mapped and seem to be more than bright enough. At this point the only problem that I am having is very weak color with the U-Trak. For example, the trackball does not "do" white and instead it looks like a faint pink. I am hoping/assuming that this is due to a lack of power because I can not see any other reason for it. Let me know if you have any other questions... |
| arzoo:
--- Quote from: Avenger257 on September 14, 2009, 09:38:35 pm ---At this point the only problem that I am having is very weak color with the U-Trak. For example, the trackball does not "do" white and instead it looks like a faint pink. I am hoping/assuming that this is due to a lack of power because I can not see any other reason for it. Let me know if you have any other questions... --- End quote --- Seems odd that just the utrak leds are dim. Have you tried unplugging all the devices from the hub except the one LEDWiz wired to the utrak? You could also disconnect some of the EE RGBs from that LEDWiz and see if the utrak LEDs are brighter - if so, then you'll need to add the addition 5v power to that controller. I'm not sure how many LEDs the utrak uses - are they all wired correctly? Using the LEDBlinky InputMap app, you can light each individual port - are all three colors dim? |
| Avenger257:
You are right... I unplugged them as you suggested (I can't believe I didn't think of that in the first place) and the color remained the same. As I've said it appears to be a deep pink (if that makes sense). I have gone into LEDBlinky and increased the levels of the different colors. The blue and red come in as very rich colors. The green is a light (almost yellow color), not faint but not a "rich" link the greens of my buttons. Its almost fluorescent green if that makes sense. I am not sure what to do about that??? Any help would be greatly appreciated! |
| arzoo:
--- Quote from: Avenger257 on September 15, 2009, 09:05:14 pm ---You are right... I unplugged them as you suggested (I can't believe I didn't think of that in the first place) and the color remained the same. As I've said it appears to be a deep pink (if that makes sense). I have gone into LEDBlinky and increased the levels of the different colors. The blue and red come in as very rich colors. The green is a light (almost yellow color), not faint but not a "rich" link the greens of my buttons. Its almost fluorescent green if that makes sense. I am not sure what to do about that??? Any help would be greatly appreciated! --- End quote --- It's possible that you have a bad RGB in the utrak. You may want to contact Andy (Ultimarc) - he provides great customer support for his products. |
| Navigation |
| Message Index |
| Next page |
| Previous page |