I've found tons of information on connecting RGB strips but none of them have as many pins as the ones I acquired last year.
I ordered 4 of these from China last year...took 4 months to get them. Anyway, here is the exact same strip.
The 10-pin connector is confusing me. I'm not quite sure what pins do what and how to connect them to a controller.
I saw someone had done this on YouTube with this particular strip but he hasn't responded on how he did it. He did mention that is a common HL1606 controller., but those, from what I've seen, have 4 pins, not 10.
Thanks for any help....sorry if this has already been asked. I didn't see it.
I'm surprised no one had anything to say. Do I need to just get another set of RGB LED strips? I guess I should have looked a little closer before I ordered them.
Ok after a little more inspection, in very, very tiny writing at every section it has "RRRGGGBBB+" representing the ten pins. The strip is broken up by 9 LEDs per section and each section has 3 blocks of 3 LEDs.
So like *** *** *** | *** *** *** |*** *** *** |
I think its safe to assume each R, G and B likely represents one LED in the block. I'll give it a try and report back.
I am currently working on the same type project also after determing i need a line of 40 meters i have found a power supply is needed every 10m. my problem is getting all them to work off one remote signal box. so what i think i need also 3 signal amplifiers for each section every 10m ? I also came across the 3 r 3 g 3 b and the 10th is +. Figuring the power(amp etc...) was hrd enough
If you figure out how to make this work on an Arduino please let me know. I'm currently trying to get this to work on a cubloc but will go buy an Arduino if you get it working. It has many more examples and sample projects anyway.
I too would be very interested in any more details on this, as I now have some of these 10-pin RGB LED strips with a description identical to the parent. I have requested the specs from the Hong Kong based ebay seller I got them from, but apparently the factory is closed until mid January; I will post it here if I get one.
Here are a couple of photos and more details on the strip, in case anybody else is googling for this same info.
Every third segment (where a segment is the distance between the pads) has the following on it: "5050-54" between two of the RGB LEDs, and at the bottom, "2009-08-01 MA 504*12 27LED5050RGB". There are 54 LEDs per metre according to the label, and 9 LEDs per segment. There are 10 "pads" between each segment, they are labelled )from top to bottom) as "+ BBB RRR GGG" as shown below in the photo. I am using a 12 volt 5 amp power supply with this strip.
The controller and the remote that come with it only allow for turning on three adjacent RGB LEDs at once, which is annoying, as the ebay auction description explicitly said "Full realization of the control of a single LED lights." (although it also says "Three lights in a group. Three lights gives a special color." whatever that means - is that what I'm describing or does it mean they are all RGB LED packages...)
