Hello,

I'm on my third build and thought i would give neopixel a try. I'm have a lot of issues with it so far. The blade will light up but it has a constant flicker and it can't produce the full range of colors. For example, using the R.I.C.E. editor i change the blade color to purple but the color on the blade is really dim orange. Light blue shows on the blade as red. Also, the led's are not very bright at all. I used 22 gauge wire and the battery is the 15A 18650 3120mAH from the shop. I tried re-soldering and i double checked all of the wire. The last thing is the speaker sounds horrible, there is a rally bad cracking when it is on and around every 5 seconds there is a really bad extra "hum" that sounds like the speaker is about to blow out. I set the ledstrip to 140 in the config but in the R.I.C.E. editor it shows as 0 and if i change it in the R.I.C.E. editor all sorts of weird stuff starts to happen with the colors and it will kill the board.

I'm kinda lost on what to do next.