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LED wiring noob needs help! Toss me a bone please. (LED-Wiz+GP)
RandyT:
--- Quote from: Dazz on April 15, 2010, 03:24:01 pm ---I have wires going from the USB + 5v to voltage Bank 1-8 then from bank 1-8 to the - on the LED. From the + on the LED to input port 1 on the Led-Wiz.
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Right now I just want this LED to turn on and stay lit. There must be something simple that I am missing.
Any tips?
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Yep. Flip the connections to the LED around. You have the polarity wrong.
RandyT
Dazz:
--- Quote from: RandyT on April 15, 2010, 04:00:15 pm ---
--- Quote from: Dazz on April 15, 2010, 03:24:01 pm ---I have wires going from the USB + 5v to voltage Bank 1-8 then from bank 1-8 to the - on the LED. From the + on the LED to input port 1 on the Led-Wiz.
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Right now I just want this LED to turn on and stay lit. There must be something simple that I am missing.
Any tips?
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Yep. Flip the connections to the LED around. You have the polarity wrong.
RandyT
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Doh! Now that I look at it; it makes sense. For some reason I was thinking that wiring was similar to a button switch. The + would go to the inputs and the LED-Wiz just controlled the voltage going to each and the ground was common. I guess with LED's the +5v is the common. Makes sense now. I'm such a noob when it comes to lighting.
I now have from the USB + 5v to voltage Bank 1-8 then from bank 1-8 to the + on the LED. From the - on the LED to input port 1 on the Led-Wiz
However, I'm still not getting anything illumination since I switched polarity. Is there a setting or something in the Led-Wiz app that I am missing?
RandyT:
--- Quote from: Dazz on April 15, 2010, 04:15:17 pm ---However, I'm still not getting anything illumination since I switched polarity. Is there a setting or something in the Led-Wiz app that I am missing?
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It should be working now. Make sure the LED is actually alive by touching the minus side to the outside metal shell of the USB connector on the LED-Wiz. This should cause it to light.
If it does, then make sure the LED-Wiz+GP is recognized by the system (should show in the gaming controls section of the OS). Then make sure the software sees it and is issuing the command properly.
RandyT
Dazz:
--- Quote from: RandyT on April 15, 2010, 08:07:53 pm ---
--- Quote from: Dazz on April 15, 2010, 04:15:17 pm ---However, I'm still not getting anything illumination since I switched polarity. Is there a setting or something in the Led-Wiz app that I am missing?
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It should be working now. Make sure the LED is actually alive by touching the minus side to the outside metal shell of the USB connector on the LED-Wiz. This should cause it to light.
If it does, then make sure the LED-Wiz+GP is recognized by the system (should show in the gaming controls section of the OS). Then make sure the software sees it and is issuing the command properly.
RandyT
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I tested the LED and and it works. I also tested the volts with my milti-meter and I am definitely getting 5v in the correct places. If i touch the - to the ground and + to the 5v the LED does light.
The LED-Wiz is recognized by Windows 7 x64. I hooked up a button to the button ports and the button is seen in the gaming controls config.
It's probably the software part that I am not getting right... How do I "make sure the software sees it and is issuing the command properly"? I went into the editor and had the led setup to act as NUMLOCK. I set numblock as 1 and when I hit numblock on the keyboard it lights in the program, but the led does not.
RandyT:
--- Quote from: Dazz on April 15, 2010, 08:50:43 pm ---It's probably the software part that I am not getting right... How do I "make sure the software sees it and is issuing the command properly"? I went into the editor and had the led setup to act as NUMLOCK. I set numblock as 1 and when I hit numblock on the keyboard it lights in the program, but the led does not.
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I haven't tested the keyboard LED emulation in the demo program under Win7. Go into the animation editor and click on the output you have it connected to and see if it lights that way.
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