Hi all, first post here. Trying to build some rgb lighting fixtures for use at gigs.
Looking for any help and advice about products to use mainly the digital rgb led strip.
Basically it is an upright standing frosted perspex tube that will have digital rgb led strip glued at the back on the inside. I have attached a drawing to give a representation, these need to be super bright as they may be used in daylight occasionally, there will be 2 strips together at the back to add to the brightness. As the tubes are 1.7m tall then the 2 strip adds to 3.4m.
So really, if anyone has suggestions or recommendations for rgb digital strip it would help me out, searching this on the internet is a total minefield of information.
My requirements are that it -
- Needs to be digital strip so that i can do things like chases
- Would be great if it could mimic a strobe effect i.e fast response.
- It is super bright as they may sometimes be used in daylight, minimum of 14w/m
- Would prefer 60led/m if possible
Things i've yet to get my head around are what the differences are between the chip types ie ws2801, ws2811, LPD8806/6803, TLS3001, TM1809/1803/1804/1812, HL1606,etc
Do they all do the same thing?
Also is the voltage important to brightness i.e 5v,12v and 24v strip?
Just a note which may alter things, i will be controlling these from a dmx lighting desk so i assume i will need to use a dmx to pwm decoder to control these!
Hope someone can point me in the right direction! Thanks