New Jarduino build gets started

[daplatapus]

Originally Posted by Chatouille

I think that I read that the difference between the libraries was optimization, not sure if one is more compatible than the other or not. (I'm using ITDB32S)

Hmmm, I wonder if it's noticeable.... Oh well, I'll worry about that later. I gotta get this thing wired up

Worked a bit on doing some soldering. Ugh, I think my eyes are gonna start bleeding, lol. I still have to drill the heatsink and get some grommets to pass the wires through. I ended up re-working my schematic so that each heatsink is individually wired and will be running on separate drivers from one another so if anything goes wrong with one I can unplug it and not affect the other 2. Each heatsink will have a 12" "tail" with these connectors:



There will be one for the positive side and one for the negative. Should make everything nice and easy to work on or change when needed. Anyway here's where I'm at so far with the one heatsink:

[daplatapus]

Well, something woke me up early this morning so I got up and tried to figure this out. I have one heatsink ready (somewhat, still waiting on some connectors) but I strill didn't know if everything worked in conjunction with the Jarduino. So I spent some time re-reading the original RC thread and temporarily hooked up what I have. Here's the pre-powered up pic in case I blew something up



Crossed my fingers and powered everything up.....
YAAAAAA!!! It works! It's alive !!!!!
Switched the screen over to test LED mode and worked the sliders and everything works awesome! 0% dimming and everything. So I took a pic at step 1 of the sliders so the crappy phone could take a pic of it. I only have the XT-E NW's, RB's, TV's and the OCW channels hooked up, but you get the idea.



EDIT: Actually now that I look at the pic I must have turned the RB's to 0 as they're not on in the pic, but they do work

[lastlight]

looking good! the full spectrum really brings the colours out on your hammer.

[daplatapus]

Originally Posted by lastlight

looking good! the full spectrum really brings the colours out on your hammer.

LOL, HAHA. Busted! I was too lazy to get mine so I used my wife's to punch out the unused pins on the 24 pin IC socket adapters.

[Chatouille]

LOL... I completely missed that. I had to go back and look at the pic’s, I thought I missed a post with a tank shot or something. It IS a sweet looking hammer though.

[daplatapus]

So, I'm re-thinking my connector issue. Just my LED's are going to take 16 wires. The heat sensor takes 3 and the PWM fans take 3 for a total 22. Been thinking of going with a DB25 connector affixed right to the heatsink and a breadboard mount DB25 by the arduino with a disconnect-able cable between them for each LED fixture. Any thoughts?