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not to argue, but everyone always says that, but I have never had the LEDs get dimmer as the battery dies. My blue LEDs always work right up until the controller shuts off (Matrix or CG, never mattered), they never dimmed as people say, but they do get brighter when I plug in a PnC cable...
some pictures might help.but for now how are you powering the controller? have you tried it with a play and charge kit plugged in? because the reason the blue LEDs don't work so well in controllers is that they have a higher forward voltage (turning on voltage) than most other colour LEDs, and as your batteries discharge the voltage they output gradually drops, so the problem could be that when you first tried it the batteries were quite new/well charged and as you have used the controller and the batteries have discharged, the voltage they output has dropped bellow the required forward voltage of the blue LEDs.
ok just tried the plug and play, i have blue lights!!!! so there isn't enough power for the blue lights on the cg board? how come the white lights i tried to put in didn't work.
if you pugged in a PnC and the lights work then you haven't blown a fuse, if a fuse were blown the lights wouldn't work even with the PnC plugged in. Like Blue LEDs, white LEDs have a higher forward voltage requirement. Are your batteries fully charged?
yes my batteries are fully charged i tried the double AA pack and the recharge, no blue lights. PNC in blue lights. i just changed to red lights and battery pack works and recharge pack works. Thanks for your help guys! Acid Mods forum members are the best!
yes, red LEDs have the lowest forward voltage so they will work fine all the time.
I have, but its usually with high mcd leds. the higher brightnessrating, the higher fw/current draw. I had a batch one time, when I used the RF they would pulse dimer with the rf pulse. I bought the right blue leds and never had these problems anymore. most people look for something like "super bright 0603 leds and this is what happens. as most people dont know the difference between one blue led and another blue led.
i get my leds from phenoptics on ebay .... he's uk based i think so not sure if he sends to the us... but all of his leds are good quality and work great on pads.... bar the uv purple leds as there fw-v is far to high for a 3v battery to operate
so his white and blue leds work on cg boards too?
Xbox wired controllers can handle all colors and brightnesses of LEDs. red orange yellow and green run at 3v and blue white purple and pink and others run at 5v. just thought id get this info out there