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Re: LED Lights for the Robot (what do you use??!?!)

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Originally Posted by Zer0 View Post
I was looking at Strip LED's from superbrightleds and saw the Red, Green, Blue and Black wires. I'm pretty sure that the Red, Green, and Blue is the positive for the LED colors and black is the ground. I know wiring enough to wire our robot's components, but I don't know how I would hook 1 ground up to 3 spikes. I'm sure there is a way, I just dont know it.
Assuming you're correct and the black wire is the power return, you don't need to connect it to a Spike at all. You can wire it directly to a black terminal on the Power Distribution Board. Or you can wire it to one of the V- inputs on one of the Spikes and share the Spike's return connection. Wire the R G B wires to any three Spike outputs you like, on either two or three Spikes, leaving any leftover Spike outputs unconnected.

Or you can wire it to the M- output of one Spike, and never turn that half of the Spike on (restrict the Spike to OFF and FORWARD).
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