New build, Soundboard is working, hilt-side LED is working but blade and illuminated switch are not

[EvanVanVan]

@ryryog25

Unless you’re getting confused with blade ID settings?

Yeah, that was what I was misunderstanding.

@ryryog25

By nature of the resistor, you won’t get continuity if you’re measuring across one, so not getting continuity is normal, and it doesn’t necessarily mean an issue

Oh, ok. I knew it wouldn’t be a full short, but I thought there should show enough continuity to not be OL either… I thought there would be some measured resistance value. But that does explain things better!

@ryryog25

Currently you have just one backtick before and after your config. Could you do us a favor and change it to 3 so it formats properly?

Looking over your config it seems fine given the diagram, so I’d just suggest double checking your wiring and explaining if there’s anything different going on.

Dumb question, but you have uploaded the config to the board, right?

Sorry about the ticks, I’ll fix it. And yeah I uploaded it three or four times trying different things lol.

@profezzorn

Two things:

1. If you have a ShtokD illumated pogo pin PCB with two resistors on it, you usually have to remove one of them to prevent signals from the last LED on the PCB from going to the center pin.

Hmmm. Damn that may have been the issue .

@profezzorn

2. The power button only lighting up for a second seems to be an issue with the generated config. It uses colored styles (RED, BLUE, etc. ), but the blade config expects WHITE. If you replace RED/BLUE/etc. in the last style in each preset with WHITE, does it work better?

This also may have been the issue but unfortunately I rolled with what I got working and it is a very tight almost permanent package. It’s going to be stuck this way for now lol… the illuminated switch lights up with clash detection.

I finally got it mostly fixed… Not sure what I did or why it worked, but as I was concerned about in my other thread (Number of lines per preset in config?) the issue seem to be related to the number blades configured.

Eventually, I tried a completely stock config “with one blade” (instead of the 4 it wanted me to use) and after uploading it, the blade worked! I added back the illuminated switch to the config generator (“for a 2nd blade”), and now everything is working (mostly…aside from the illuminated switch not** being illuminated on when the blade is on**). Even the illuminated Pogo pin PCB is working, while not being configured as a separate blade.

Edit: I forgot to mention the other tweak I had to make it get it working was to switch from an Illuminated PCB to WS2811/Neopixel in the config generator (which is how I got down to 1 blade.)