Worklog Zelda Themed Gwii

[Joshy5]

The sensor bar is designed to run off 12v. You'll need to use a weaker resistor if you want to run the LEDs off 3.3v, else they'll be too dim to detect.

Ah ok thanks. The Wii U gamepad LED's also run off 12V?
If so, I'll just use the Wii U LED's and solder new resistors.

 

[Stitches]

Ah ok thanks. The Wii U gamepad LED's also run off 12V?
If so, I'll just use the Wii U LED's and solder new resistors.

Whoops, sorry I smoothbrained while reading that and didn't notice you said you were using the diodes from the gamepad. If they're fed by 3.3v normally then yeah you can just reuse the diodes and their current limiting resistor as is

 

[LCandell]

Ah ok thanks. The Wii U gamepad LED's also run off 12V?
If so, I'll just use the Wii U LED's and solder new resistors.

I was about to ask the same thing

 

[Pablo]

Thought it was worth mentioning that the oem sensor bar, at least on the wii, uses 7v. 12v on one terminal, 5v on the other. It can run off 12v but I doubt for very long, got hot when I tried it a while back

 

[Joshy5]

Ok no worries. I just checked. It was a pain, as I had to partial reassembly the gamepad parts, then get the wiiU console out and sync the wiimote, and enter Wii mode in order to get the IR LED's to power on

Anyway they do take 3V. And it's a 10Ω resistor.
Edit: and the 2 leds are in series, so just the one resistor.