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Summary: Confirm everything behaves so you aren't troubleshooting later thinking it's your lights.
🛑 This guide is a major work-in-progress. There are missing details, missing pictures, missing articles, and it isn't properly organized in a lot of places. I'm continuing to update it daily, but I've decided to publish what I have so the community can start giving input.
This page was last updated: December 19, 2025 @ 3:01 PM
Test Your Components
We’re going to start building our control box shortly, but there’s a critical step first…
Power supplies can be bad out of the box, you can buy the wrong relay, WLED firmware needs updatec, etc. A 30 minute bench test to confirm everything turns on and does the correct thing before you spend time laying it out and mounting it in the box is the best way to save yourself a lot of time and frustration.
It's also a great way to learn and practice if you haven't set something like this up before.
What to grab
- Both 24V PSUs, 5V PSU, and power cords
- Dig-quad controller
- A test strand of lights
- Multimeter (optional but recommended)
- Small flat head and phillips screwdrivers
- Various wire sizes and Wagos
- xConnect pigtail for the controller
What to test
PSUs
Attach the power cords to the 24V PSUs and verify they both power on (green light). Then use your multimeter and verify you’re getting 24V out of each. If it’s a bit high or low then you can turn the potentiometer on the PSU with a screwdriver to get it at 24V. If it’s way off of 24V then it’s probably bad.
Repeat that process with the 5V PSU.
Dig-Quad
- Connect the Dig-Quad to your 5V PSU and verify the LED comes on as expected.
- Connect to WLED to setup your internet and verify it comes online. Update the firmware as needed.
- Set the LED count to however many pucks you plan to hook up for this test (10 is enough)
- Power it off, connect the strand (connect the pigtail to the controller outputs and then attach your strand to that), and power it back on
- Verify things are working as expected
Relays (optional)
If you’re going to be controlling the power to the 24V PSUs via relays, now would be a great time to test and validate that’s working as expected. Again, it verifies that they’re working but also gives you a chance to figure out your wire setup if you haven’t done this before.
Fan / temp controller
Same as above. Test to make sure it’s good and to figure out how you’re going to wire it.
You don't want the fan turning on when the box is cold and off when it gets hot...
When you’re done testing
Take pictures and notes of how you wired things like the relays and fan controller (especially if it took you some troubleshooting or research to get it working). You’ll thank yourself later.