White lockup or no flashing with test firmware

[trekster]

I understand the phrase "white lock up".    I just loaded test firmware to a ss controller and connected 40 rectangle nodes to the hub and turned on the power.  All node are white and do nothing else but white.  Not knowing just what the "TEST" firmware is supposed to do, I would say I have white lock up.  I want to know what should happen if you do not have white lock up.  Do the lights change color?  Do they blink?  Should the change quickly?  Sounds like I may have to change from 330 ohm to 150 ohm.

Ron

[Rainlover]

Ron,
With the test firmware, the lights should cycle Rad, Green, Blue, White, Red, Green Blue White etc etc.

John

[trekster]

Thank You!  I do then have white lockup.

Ron

[trekster]

If I am not going to use the test firmware, should I still change the 330 to a 150 or will it not matter running the show firmware.

Ron

[rm357]

If the program jumper is on = solid white
If the program jumper is off = colors should cycle

I plan on changing all of the 330 ohm resistors in my SSCs (only two built units left, 14 still awaiting assembly).

RM

[trekster]

Shoot!  I did not have white lockup.  I had program jumper on.  Where is the info about using the test firmware like the jumper on or off for white and colors?  I seem to have missed it.

Ron

[RJ]

The white lockup issue a few strings have had tends to cycle red,green,blue then white but then hangs on white instead of moving on again.

So I also wonder about the jumper but RM already posted since you said it came on white.

RJ

[trekster]

The white lockup issue a few strings have had tends to cycle red,green,blue then white but then hangs on white instead of moving on again.

So I also wonder about the jumper but RM already posted since you said it came on white.

RJ

Yes I had the jumper on.  I had 5 sets of 40 on the table and the would only do white.  When RM posted about the jumper I removed the jumper on all 5 controllers and turned them back on.  They scrolled through the colors very smoothly.  Thank you guys.

Ron

[rm357]

We are a team and we are all human.

I've already toasted at least one fuse... I'm just glad RJ designed them in - without it something else might have gotten toasted like a trace or wire. 40A at 12 volts can do some damage...


RM

[lonewolf41]

Just stumbled across this.  This is one of those items that should be made a sticky as I am not sure I would have found it otherwise and it has some pretty important troubleshooting info.

Just my $0.02,
-Keith

[rdebolt]

I just received the rest of my nodes from Ray and have started the burn in process. I have 3 strings so far that will cycle through a couple of time then lock up in "white mode", well sort of. Not all of the nodes are pure white. I used the 150ohm resistor on all of my sscs and have tried different controllers on each string. My question is "How do you pin point which node is causing the issue when they lock up?" I am using 128 node strings and have not cut any of my last shipment up yet. Any suggestions?

[keitha43]

Fastest way is to just cut in half and just test 1/2 at a time and repeat. Always looks for 1 node to look a little different as sometimes that pinpoints the problem quicker.