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Last revision 2025/12/17
This article offers a comprehensive guide on serially linking modules for Arduino projects using TLC and PWM outputs, including assembly instructions, connection methods, and setup details for resistors and digital pins.
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- The module can be serially linked to make a wall or circle. (Up to 16 modules)
- This module comes with assemblied and can be directly plugged into our Interface shield. The link is conducted by IDC2x5 cables. It can also be directly connected to Arduino via the F/M cables.
- If you are daisy-chaining more than one TLC, connect the SOUT of the first TLC to the SIN of the next.All the other pins should just be connected together:
BLANK on Arduino -> BLANK of TLC1 -> BLANK of TLC2 -> ...XLAT on Arduino -> XLAT of TLC1 -> XLAT of TLC2 -> ...
- The one exception is that each TLC needs it's own resistor between pin 20 and GND.
- The library uses the PWM output ability of digital pins 3, 9, 10, and 11. Do not use analogWrite(...) on these pins.
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