I modified the picture. It may need to be refreshed if it doesn’t show the alterations.
The wires marked by the blue arrows were the ones that were clipped and that I initially replaced. It was pretty obvious where they were connected, so I just replaced them accordingly. The white arrow marks the re-soldered black wire that firelight2 suggested. I don’t think I wired it incorrectly, but it’s been a while since I’ve taken electricity and magnetism in Physics so it all seems pretty foreign now.
There should be no branches (two wires connected to the same side of an LED). You have at least one branch in the red wires. You need to wire them like Scaru has drawn. There should be one wire going from the + of one LED to the - of the next LED.
Edit: Make sure the red wire coming from the driver goes to the first LED + and the black driver wire goes to the last LED -.
No his wiring is right, if I remember correctly there are 3groups of 3 parallel.
And this is what I can see.
This would also make clear why just the 3 in the middle worked.
Yeah, the wiring is screwed up. Truthfully I am having a hard time figuring out what you did but it isn't right. :P I'm gonna try drawing up how it should be wired on one of your pictures for ya.
Thank you for the replies…
aoyue, it actually wraps around (orange line)… see diagram below for what I mean.
Scaru, it is actually wired like that right now. It just doesn’t seem that way in that particular pic, but the one I posted with the orange dot should.
Edit: Yes Werner, I believe so.
I made a sloppy diagram on sketchbook, but I tried to maintain the relative orientation of the individual LED’s:
But why worked it for a moment and then just the 3 LEDs light up?
I can’t figure out what is wrong. But it can’t be just the driver, if current flows through the inner 3 than there has to be current through the other 6 too…
What driver issue should it be?
If theses groups are parallel why is there just flowing current through one group?
You should cut the middle group and try if another group lights up.