Originally Posted by
Tom Tilmon
On the hilt side adapater, you only need to wire one + and one - wire to the adapter. Both poles go to the same pin/ring on the adapter. On the blade side, it allows you do independently hook up each strip (some are using 2 some 3) individually to help reduce wire gauge. I'm bridging my strips, just as I did in my tests, and it worked out fine. I will have 3 wires going to adapter in hilt: positive, negative, data. I will have 3 wires going from the blade adapter to my strips: positive, negative, and data.
That worked during my bench test, and that is how I intend on wiring the adapters. Those poles are all extra, bonus, giving more positions to wire to, or to wire things independenty to get less amperage through a single wire. I am using heavier gauge wires than normal for positive/negative. My data line is 30 gauge. I hope to build my blade just after Christmas, ordering stuff for all my neopixel builds perhaps this week, depending on other bills. If you use 3 wires, I'd suggest a bit thicker gauge to carry the added amperage. There are charts for this available on the internet.
Tom
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