12-26-2021, 06:20 AM
I'm about to start working on getting my ViperSpectra lights working with Robo tank and just wanted your opinion to make sure I'm doing this correctly.
The black box on these lights has 4 wires that goto the controller board/display. These are..
My current plan is to ignore the +12V as it just powers the control board. wire the ground. the PWM and the on/off.
PWM / Analog Port 1 would turn light fixture channel 1 on. Port 2 would control PWM. Port 3 would turn channel 2 on and 4 would control PWM.. at this rate i'd run out of ports after 2 fixtures and I have 3.
Would it be better then.. or would it be to much current? to run lets say port 1 turns channel 1 for all 3 fixtures on. port 2 turns channel 2 for all 3 fixtures on. then use the remaining 6 ports to control the PWM of each channel per fixture? or maybe combine those into only 2 more ports as well?
and would this entire setup even work properly?
The black box on these lights has 4 wires that goto the controller board/display. These are..
- Purple on/off
- Brown +12V
- Blue PWM
- Grey Ground
My current plan is to ignore the +12V as it just powers the control board. wire the ground. the PWM and the on/off.
PWM / Analog Port 1 would turn light fixture channel 1 on. Port 2 would control PWM. Port 3 would turn channel 2 on and 4 would control PWM.. at this rate i'd run out of ports after 2 fixtures and I have 3.
Would it be better then.. or would it be to much current? to run lets say port 1 turns channel 1 for all 3 fixtures on. port 2 turns channel 2 for all 3 fixtures on. then use the remaining 6 ports to control the PWM of each channel per fixture? or maybe combine those into only 2 more ports as well?
and would this entire setup even work properly?
