So, I've been pouring through the forums here and various other saber sites trying to solve the last hiccup I've had building my LED strip saber. Essentially, even though everything is wired up properly, the led strips will not light up at all. I've been wracking my brains trying to locate the issue and at this point I'm completely stuck. I'm running a nano biscotte v4 with a 18650 3.7V battery (the 10A protected battery), using the tcss neopixel adapters blade/hiltside, and the led strips are the WS2812(B) kind.
I've got everything wired up properly to my knowledge; the recharge port/kill key works fine, the mom switch works fine, and I can use a multimeter to determine that the battery is getting 3.7 v to all pins on the hilt side adapter. I have the ledstrip setting in the override set to 126 (pixels), and the ls1 and ls0 are set to 14 and 28, respectively, as per the nano biscotte manual. I think the problem is the blade side adapter, which I wired exaclty like Rob did in his video, but doesn't seem to get any kind of current.
However, when it's in contact with the hilt adapter, it reboots my saber and makes a kind of ticking sound (if its not all the way in contact), and when I hit the switch, nothing. None of the pixels light up at all. Is it possible I fried the blade side? And if so, how would that have happened? I bridged the two spots and have a 470ohm resistor on the data line. At this point I'm going to get another blade side adapter pcb and rewire it more carefully but I wanted to see if there is something that I'm overlooking at all.
*Edit: One of the thumbnail images shows the battery I had in before that wasn't getting enough amps that I switched out for the 3.7 v protected one. I'm new to the forums so I'm not sure how to remove an image
Last edited by Snoringeagle; 03-15-2018 at 07:52 AM.
LED Strip NOT LIGHTING UP (at all)
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