Been a hot minute since I built a saber, but was trying to get one put together for my Girlfriend and I’s 1 year anniversary. Rather simple build, mainly just a shared data set for NPXL hilt lights and blade. Got everything programmed and wired up, NPXL hilt lights work fantastic but upon connection to the blade, not getting throughput.
My question is, was I supposed to remove one of the resistors by data 2 pad? I think I remember something about that with them, but for this I had left them both (r1, r2). The mothballs aren’t helping me remember.
Any help is appreciative. Thanks in advance.
If it is the Shtok V4 connector you can keep both resistors if you wire the data to the D2 pad.
That is option 2 and has the blade and the onboard LEDs in parallel.
I have Data 1 and Data 2 wired, although I think I just did that out of habit. If it is indeed using Data 1 instead - I should remove the R1 resistor?
I’ll check the config in a minute when I’m back on the computer
BladeConfig blades
= {
{ 0, WS281XBladePtr<131, bladePin, Color8::GRB, PowerPINS<bladePowerPin2, bladePowerPin3> >(),
WS281XBladePtr<131, blade2Pin, Color8::GRB, PowerPINS<bladePowerPin2, bladePowerPin3> >(),
The data pad you use on the proffieboard doesn’t matter.
By the D2 pad I meant the D2 pad on the NPXL connector.
That is if you are using option 2, which has the blade and onboard LEDs in parallel.
If you don’t want them in parallel there are other options where you would need to remove a resistor.
Removed R1 looking at it more in depth. Works now
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Yup, that’s my personal favorite, option 4. 