i recently bought 4 16ft 5050 300 led light strips and i would like to buy an arduino uno to customize them but i am seeing alot of programable and addresable conflicts... i dont understand the diffrence and how can i tell wich ones i have purchased
thanks for you time
Those are just marketing words for the same thing, not technical description. What matters is the part number of the leds they're using.
Are they LEDs and a control chip?
LEDs with integrated control chip?
LEDs with just current limit resistor?
Something else?
Post a link to what you bought.
heres a link i could take a picture as well
thanks alot for the reply
im basically tryna figure out if i can but the adruno uno and custome edit them to do designs
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LIFX Z Starter Kit - Light strip - LED - 17 W - warm to cool white light - 2500-9000 K - 6.6 ft - Walmart.comheres a link i could take a picture as well
thanks alot for the reply
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sryyy thanks friend
sorry i am new to this form .. never made a form post befor
The walmart link is short of details.
Post a clear picture of three LEDs:
"every third LED is cutable without damaging the rest strip."
Yes.
It appears your strip is basically groups of 3 LEDs in series with a current limit resistor.
Each group is in parallel with every other group. So you control all Reds, all Greens, or all Blues together.
Each 3-LED color draws about 20mA, ~60mA for White when all 3 colors are on.
If you were to power an entire strip of 300 LEDs, that's 100 groups, x 0.06A = 6A is needed.
Probably want to connect 12V to at least 3 points in the strip - both ends and the middle.
Need Logic-Level, Low Rds, N-channel MOSFETs to sink current from each R,G,B pin to turn on a color. Use a PWM signal to control brightness.
AOI514 from digikey.com should work well.
thanks soo much.... now my question is if i buy a controller can i do stuff like this
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