Increase LED brightness

[Roberto]

Hi everyone, do you know a way to increase the brightness intensity of the LEDs in the Pidp-8?

Thanks!!

Roberto

[William Cattey]

You should probably determine if this is a hardware problem that full-on brightness is not enough, or

a software problem of your not liking the incandescent light simulation.

There is a program that will turn the LEDs full-on for testing purposes.  It gets installed as pidp8i-test.

On your pidp8i, you'll need to stop the regular pidp8i system to run it:

        pidp8i stop

Then you can run pidp8i-test, and it will step through lighting up the LEDs.

If it's a hardware problem, you could experiment with lower values of the current-limiting resistors. But be careful not to blow out your LEDs.

If it's a software problem with the incandescent light simulation, we've been playing with that rather a lot in recent months.  Perhaps taking a newer version of the software will give you lighting you like better.

-Bill

[Roberto]

Thanks Bill,
I did the test and the brightness is still low, I also have another Pidp8 and it always has the same brightness,
I will try to lower the value of the resistors since there is the UDN in between.
Thank you

Roberto