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Thanks for the response, and sorry for the lack of detail, i will be able to get photos at our meeting tonight, i will check out the wire jackets when i get there as well, and also get the most recent version of code that we will run. as of now, none of our leds light up, but...

The arduino power light is lit.

We have tested with a multimeter, and the led strip is getting power

the code is running, and we have added print statements, the code i posted above does not have those however, one of our other programmers currently has that program

The print statements do actually print.

I will also double check the wiring... thanks again