CG Controller - Player 4 LED on as soon as battery is plugged in

[InformedLeek]

Hi Guys,

Well my question is pretty much the one in the title, I have a rapid fire HEX created by a coder friend of mine, and I have come to install the chip into a CG controller today and I seem to have the P4 LED stuck on all the time as soon as power is input, so literally as soon as the battery is plugged in, on comes the P4 LED (the LED i have wired to, to display the mode etc)

I have installed the same chip into a matrix controller and everything is hunky dory - not sure what i'm doing wrong?

If someone could offer some advice that would be very helpful.

Thanks a lot.

[Rodent]

you probably have something bridged in your solder joint or you didnt install for a CG controller depending on which Rapid Fire code you used there not the same as a matrix , some need resistors and diodes

[InformedLeek]

The HEX itself shouldnt change, however the way it is wired in does, your right, the matrix controllers need 3 resistors and a diode to work, the CG controller just needs the one resistor (on its way over to the P4 LED.

Ill have a check on the wiring, but I dont think anything is bridged (unintentionally anyway)

Thanks

[Modded Matt]

this is coding. if your coder is any good, you will not need any resistors for either controllers. The diode is needed for matrix controllers only. It will be a different Hex for each different type of controller. they are backwards from one another.  Unless your coder has wrote a program to poll the controller to determine what type of controller it is at start up, which I highly doubt was done.

[Tenac]

I changed the LEDs in one of my friends controllers a while back, and for some reason the 1st player LED always stayed on if there was a battery back in the controller, regardless if the controller was on or off, and regardless if the controller was 2nd, 3rd, or 4th player.  Neither of us could figure out why it always stayed on hahaha.

As for your problem, I suppose check for any damaged traces or if anything is bridged, or try other rapidfire codes to isolate the problem.

[Phantom]

make sure you are using the switched 3v for power, if you wired it straight to the battery pins that could be your problem.

[Modded Matt]

hahahah....

you can just keep guessing like these guys or you can fix the code.

[Rodent]

hahahah....

you can just keep guessing like these guys or you can fix the code.

Smartass!!!!!!   If i knew more about coding, i know, i just gave him the basic things to check. and learned from what  you said

[3D0kassiah]

why doesnt the op just ask his friend for help since his friend is the one that created the hex im sure if hes the creator he should know how to trouble shoot it