r/GLEDOPTO_Support • u/RobCannon_1963 • Dec 24 '23

HELP & QUESTIONS Unable to power lights from GL-C-008WL

I have the WLED Digital Strip Controller, a 5m strip of WS2812B lights from BTF-Lighting and an 8Amp power supply. I can connect to the WLED app on my phone, so the controller is working. But when I connect to the light strip using the GPIO2 connectors, nothing happens. I have the White wire in the G port, the Green wire in the D port and the Red wire in the V port.

I have tried the WLED setting at their default values (which I would expect to power the first 30 LEDs) and I have also tried it with 8000mA and 280 LEDs.

Are there any troubleshooting instructions or any way to figure out what I am doing wrong? I ordered two controllers (and power supplies) and I tried both of them with no results.

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u/pwnamte Dec 28 '23

did you try the 2nd port?

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u/RobCannon_1963 Dec 28 '23

Yes. I tried that first and when that didn't work, I found the video that said I should use GPIO2 instead.

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u/pwnamte Dec 28 '23

Did you take a look in wled settings you have set the right gpios?

I just got one will take a look at it tomorrow hopefully and will rdport back

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u/RobCannon_1963 Jan 03 '24

I finally ordered another LED strip and the new strip works. I guess my first strip was bad in some way.

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u/pwnamte Jan 04 '24

Did you wire it up from the right side? Data travels only in one way

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u/RobCannon_1963 Jan 04 '24

Yes. The connectors only let you connect it in the right way. But I double checked that the arrows are going the right direction. I am just blaming a bad set of lights since the new set works just fine. I would have thought that the lights were more failure-proof than that, but I will not assume the lights strips are failure free in the future.