I have 3 LED strip (SK6812, 5V), 3 meters each (around 450 pixels per strip).
Data pins are plugged directly to Arduino MKR Zero. I use an external 5V 3A power supply plugged into breadboard. To the breadboard I also plug the LEDs pwr and ground. That works but it melted the breadboard....
To prevent melting I tried plugging the LEDs' power and ground directly into the external power supply, the LED light up with strange glitches and crazy patterns, they are not responding to the program at all.
Why is that happening and how to resolve that issue?
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karoathome:
I am not sure what you mean :). LED strips' ground are all connected to external power supply.
But is the ground of these power supplies connected back to your Arduino ground.
At 60 mA per LED your power supply is vastly underrated for the job you need a bigger one. You also need to supply power directly to both ends of the strip, and where ever two strips join.
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Data pins are plugged directly to Arduino MKR Zero.
That will not provide you with enough signal. You need a level shifter and not one designed for an I2C device. Use a 74HTC14 chip to do the shifting.
