well played around and loaded the strandtest.pde from adafruit and the lights do turn off so i can rule out a wiring issue. I'm Very near being finished with this hula hoop. i just want to figure out the whole lights turning off with sleep mode issue without having to just wire up a switch between the lights and the power source.I"m going for as few buttons and switches as i can. which besides the 3 buttons that are inside but will be accessable from outside via somesort of pin. Any kind of help would be awesome thankyou!