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Title: How to tell if an LEDWiz is working?
Post by: Entropy42 on March 07, 2013, 05:04:02 pm
I have two of these, and am just starting to try and work with them.  I have one plugged in to my computer, with just a USB cable.  I have one LED attached to it on channel 16 (one leg to ground, one to #16).  Using Win 7 x64.  When I plug in the LEDWiz, Windows makes the "found new usb device" noise, and tells me "USB Input Device installed". 
I tried just opening SimpleLEDTest.exe in LEDBlinky, thinking that would let me test things out, but when I select "All LEDS" and change the intensity slider the LED doesn't light, and when I check the voltage of Pin16, its at 0.  The test program shows only one device on the left side "LEDWiz-1".

Are there drivers or Active X controls, or DLLs I need to install before this will work?
Title: Re: How to tell if an LEDWiz is working?
Post by: Entropy42 on March 07, 2013, 05:35:51 pm
After fiddling with this some more, I am now able to get the LEDWIz "resident software" and LWSend Interactive to send commands to the LEDWiz, but can never measure a voltage on any pin that is higher than ~.5V.  Checking the 5V and Ground pins shows 5V, but all outputs won't go higher than .5V, no matter what intensity command I send it.  Sending it a "1" value gets me about 0.01 v.  Sending a 48 makes it about .55V.
Title: Re: How to tell if an LEDWiz is working?
Post by: Entropy42 on March 08, 2013, 10:48:03 am
Resolved this myself.   I had it wired up incorrectly, I had been assuming the numbered terminals were high, so I had been connecting and measuring between the Ground pin and the terminals, rather than between the 5V pin and the terminals.
Title: Re: How to tell if an LEDWiz is working?
Post by: nck1285 on March 08, 2013, 11:25:41 am
Glad you got it resolved!

Sort of an off topic question but do you have a touch screen monitor/display laying around that you can test LEDWiz along side with?