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Title: LED-Wiz Button Dilemma too many buttons not enough ports... Ideas????
Post by: Bender on June 08, 2009, 11:55:41 pm

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

Title: Re: LED-Wiz Button Dilemma too many buttons not enough ports... Ideas????
Post by: Franco B on June 09, 2009, 02:18:06 am

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.

Title: Re: LED-Wiz Button Dilemma too many buttons not enough ports... Ideas????
Post by: Bender on June 09, 2009, 04:17:57 pm

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

Title: Re: LED-Wiz Button Dilemma too many buttons not enough ports... Ideas????
Post by: Franco B on June 09, 2009, 04:30:29 pm

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 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=87419.msg917963#msg917963)].

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.