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Title: Best cost effective way to light 30 pushbuttons and 6 balltops to rgb leds?
Post by: Dr. Willy on December 29, 2010, 09:51:41 pm

Just curious what everyones thoughts were on this? Is my only option just to get 3 32 output led-wiz's and just go for it?

Title: Re: Best cost effective way to light 30 pushbuttons and 6 balltops to rgb leds?
Post by: methodical on December 29, 2010, 10:14:14 pm

Won't each RGB LED use 3 outputs (one for each color) of an LEDWiz? If that's the case you'd need 4 of them.

Title: Re: Best cost effective way to light 30 pushbuttons and 6 balltops to rgb leds?
Post by: drventure on December 29, 2010, 11:29:29 pm

methodical's right. Each RGB uses 3 inputs of an LED wiz.

I've found other options that LEDWiz, but they're MUCH more expensive.

Plus, the LEDWiz has support from several frontends and LEDBlinky, which is a BIG leg up when you're putting your cab together.

Title: Re: Best cost effective way to light 30 pushbuttons and 6 balltops to rgb leds?
Post by: Nephasth on December 29, 2010, 11:53:27 pm

Depends if you want them all controlled independently of each other. If you have a number of buttons that are going to be the same color and on at the same time, those could be wired together/share inputs saving you some inputs.

Title: Re: Best cost effective way to light 30 pushbuttons and 6 balltops to rgb leds?
Post by: fallacy on December 30, 2010, 01:29:48 am

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Depends if you want them all controlled independently of each other. If you have a number of buttons that are going to be the same color and on at the same time, those could be wired together/share inputs saving you some inputs.

Ya and if you just want them to light up when your computer is powered on you can skip the led-wiz all together and just hook them up to you 12v power supply.

Title: Re: Best cost effective way to light 30 pushbuttons and 6 balltops to rgb leds?
Post by: NoBullMAME on December 30, 2010, 10:17:33 am

Maybe it's because I haven't been to the boards in a long time, you are talking about using one LED that does Red, Green and Blue? If so, is it the one Sparkfun sells?

I don't know if any others, so if there are let me know where you picked them up at? I just want to make sure there's not a RGB LED I'm missing out on.

Title: Re: Best cost effective way to light 30 pushbuttons and 6 balltops to rgb leds?
Post by: Nephasth on December 30, 2010, 10:53:32 am

Quote from: NoBullMAME on December 30, 2010, 10:17:33 am

Maybe it's because I haven't been to the boards in a long time, you are talking about using one LED that does Red, Green and Blue? If so, is it the one Sparkfun sells?

I don't know if any others, so if there are let me know where you picked them up at? I just want to make sure there's not a RGB LED I'm missing out on.

RGB = Red, Green, Blue. And my mixing those three colors and intensities, you can get tons of different colors.

Title: Re: Best cost effective way to light 30 pushbuttons and 6 balltops to rgb leds?
Post by: BobA on December 30, 2010, 10:59:31 am

RGB leds are sold all over.  Ebay has many.  Groovy Game Gear and Ultimarc have them built into buttons which makes it much easier to work with.  Many LED specialty sites are on the internet.

Title: Re: Best cost effective way to light 30 pushbuttons and 6 balltops to rgb leds?
Post by: NoBullMAME on December 30, 2010, 11:30:50 am

Quote from: BobA on December 30, 2010, 10:59:31 am

RGB leds are sold all over.  Ebay has many.  Groovy Game Gear and Ultimarc have them built into buttons which makes it much easier to work with.  Many LED specialty sites are on the internet.

Well, now I just feel stupid. I even has a reseller account over at ultimarc. I've been buying mine from sparkfun thinking they were the only one's who sold them.

Sorry, doc for the mini thread-hi-jack!

Title: Re: Best cost effective way to light 30 pushbuttons and 6 balltops to rgb leds?
Post by: jediz on January 06, 2011, 01:36:14 pm

Or - super cheap - backlight them all with a flourescent tube. The old school way.

Title: Re: Best cost effective way to light 30 pushbuttons and 6 balltops to rgb leds?
Post by: armi0024 on January 06, 2011, 07:23:02 pm

Ultimarc just announced their 64 output controller,
http://www.ultimarc.com/pacled64.html (http://www.ultimarc.com/pacled64.html)
Looks pretty sweet, Each one can do 16 RGB LED's from what I understand.

Title: Re: Best cost effective way to light 30 pushbuttons and 6 balltops to rgb leds?
Post by: Dr. Willy on January 07, 2011, 01:33:53 am

Quote from: armi0024 on January 06, 2011, 07:23:02 pm

Ultimarc just announced their 64 output controller,
http://www.ultimarc.com/pacled64.html (http://www.ultimarc.com/pacled64.html)
Looks pretty sweet, Each one can do 16 RGB LED's from what I understand.

thank your for this, this is what i want now, anyword on a release date?