Testing out the LED matrix (disconnected from MAX7219 driver board) w/ a 5V source and a 470 ...1K Ohm resistor will tell you... and then you do the same with a single LED and the driver board... that will tell you what is broken... or it may just have been a cold soldering point... had those duds when working w/ flip-dots... it just did not want to work, and that's the procedure I used to get to the bottom of the issue.
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Testing out the LED matrix (disconnected from MAX7219 driver board) w/ a 5V source and a 470 ...1K Ohm resistor will tell you... and then you do the same with a single LED and the driver board... that will tell you what is broken... or it may just have been a cold soldering point... had those duds when working w/ flip-dots... it just did not want to work, and that's the procedure I used to get to the bottom of the issue.