Good Quality LED strip Sometimes LED strip just can’t cost what you need to pay for Premium quality LED strip, often not all applications even need that kind of quality. Like in your garage or other large area where you will need large amount of strip and can’t justify using the best quality. A compromise […]
Premium Quality LED strip During the years I have been testing lots and lots of LED strip. Most strip is only ok or maybe even some good, but very sometimes there is a brand that does everything right. Thick PCB material for the strip with lots of copper and the best LEDs available on the […]
QuinLED-Deca-Plus Pinout Guide Wiring Guide Wiring LED strip seems simple but becomes more complex the longer the length becomes. Before we talk wiring though, take a look at my article about 12v vs 24v LED strip. In the following diagrams I will be talking about 24v LED strip only, when using 12v take into account […]
Accompanying video post This post is meant to mainly go along with the following video. Below you will find the ESPhome code used in the video so you can easily copy and paste it! QuinLED-Deca-Plus ESPhome code substitutions: esphome_name: attic_deca_plus_36v esphome: name: ${esphome_name} platform: ESP32 board: mhetesp32devkit wifi: ssid: !secret esphome_wifi_ssid password: !secret […]
QuinLED-Deca-Plus Hardware guide I’ve decided to slightly redesign this project (mostly PCB, not components), hoping for completion somewhere Q3-Q4 2020 For information about the different revisions, please see the QuinLED-Deca-Plus Revision history If you are looking for information about the board and it’s capabilities, please take a look over here first To build the QuinLED-Deca-Plus […]
How much power do addressable LEDs use? There are lots of different digitally addressable LEDs out there, the more popular one’s are WS2812b and SK6812 for instance. But how much do all these LEDs use? Is there a difference in power usage? And how about between 5v and 12v LEDs? Let’s test this to find […]
Pre-Assembled/Pre-Made boards available! 2020-05-08 – Start of new sale 2020-05-12 – Sold out current batch 2020-06-02 – New batch in stock! Don’t know what a QuinLED-Dig-Uno is? Click here for the introduction video! Since the first run of 100 boards was so successful I had a lot more made! To accomplish this, over the last […]
Pre-Assembled QuinLED-Dig-Uno WLED manual Once you receive your pre-assembled board, it’s really easy to get it all setup using WLED! WLED can be controlled using the WLED app or for instance using Home Assistant! Flashing your ESP8266 D1 Mini with WLED Pre-assembled boards currently sold have WLED 0.9.1 pre-flashed already! Check out the video how […]
QuinLED-Deca-Plus Revision history To try and keep track of past revisions and the major changes between the versions here is a list of past releases and some of the things that have changed QuinLED-Deca-Plus Version 1 Revision 14 2020-04-xx – Initial release version
Integrating WLED (on a QuinLED-Dig-Uno) with Home Assistant Since a little while it’s now possible to control WLED from Home Assistant, I made an easy to follow video on how to integrate your WLED controllers into Home Assistant!