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V1.1.2 December 2nd 2019

Basics for using LED-Warrior04

Installation

The minimum requirements to use LED-Warrior04

are a DC power supply with min. 7 V, max. 32 V,

and a LED with at least 80 mA forward current.

To configure LED-Warrior04 it is recommended to

use a computer running Windows and one of our

USB to I2C interfaces (either IOW28-DG or

IOW56-DG).

Compatible LEDs

LED-Warrior04 is a four channel constant current

driver. It is designed to directly drive LEDs

without and additional electronics or series

resistors.

LED stripes, LED modules or LED lamps which

are designed to be run with a fixed voltage are not

compatible with LED-Warrior04.

The current for the LEDs is controlled by the LED-

Warrior04 and can be set from 80 mA to 1000 mA.

The forward current of the LEDs has to be at least

2.5 V less than the input voltage to the LED-

Warrior04. At 24 V supply voltage the LED

forward voltage must not be higher than 21.5 V.

Usable power supplies

The power supply for LED-Warrior04 must be

between 7 V to maximum 32 V. The required

current depends on how many LEDs are used and

with how much current they are driven.

AC power supplies and simple halogen "electronic

transformers" are not compatible with LED-

Warrior04.

Factory settings

In the shipping status LED-Warrior04 is set to

80OmA forward current and 100% brightness on all

four channels. Control is set to default to I2C.

To control LED-Warrior04 via DMX or IEC62386

it is necessary to do a configuration via the I2C

interface.

Using the interfaces

LED-Warrior04 allows lighting control via

DMX512, IEC62386, and I2C.

I2C is the main interface for LED-Warrior04.

Activating the other interfaces, setting the current

for the channels, and accessing other options is

only possible via the I2C interface.

Control via I2C

The I2C interface allows to access all functions of

LED-Warrior04.

The +5V pin on the I2C interfcae is an output and

must not be conncted with another power source.

LED-Warrior04 generates the 5 V from its power

input and allows to supply small add on devices

like RF modules. The 5 V must not be connected to

the 5 V of a USB if a USB to I2C bridge is used, or

to any other power source.

Setup and direct control are possible via the I2C

interface. LED-Warrior04 may be used as a

peripheral for single board computers via I2C.

For configuration of the LED-Warrior04 we offer

standard software tools running on Windows.

Connection to the computer is realized with our

USB to I2C dongles (IOW24-DG or IOW56-DG).

Using DMX

To use DMX512 to control LED-Warrior04 you

first have to enable the DMX function via the I2C

port and set the base address (starting slot). It is

also possible to select a linear or logarithmic

dimming curve. The logarithmic curve usually

results in a better resolution.

The DMX interface is completely implemented on

board of the LED-Warrior04. Only a cable needs to

be attached. A termination resistor is on board too.

Shorting the two left pins with a jumper does

activate the resistor if the LED-Warrior04 is the

last DMX device in a chain.

The number of address slots LED-Warrior04 uses

can be set from 1 to 4 via I2C. So if any channels

are unused they don't ned to use address slots.

Using IEC62386 bus

IEC62386 has to be selected as the control source

via I2C. A bus interface module (LW04DI-MOD)

has to be put onto the IEC62386 connector of the

LED-Warrior04.

LED-Warrior04 will show up on the IEC62386 bus

as multiple devices and can be configured as any

standard IWC62386 luminaire.

The number of addresses LED-Warrior04 can vary

depending on the operating mode selected via I2C.

Unused channels can be deactivated. Selecting

Tunable White with Twin mode does reduce the

number of addresses to 2.