Addressable COB LED strip guide Next to standard 5050 SMD style LEDs (I have a guide for those over here) there are now various COB style LED strips you can get for decent prices! Below you’ll find summaries and videos for 5v strips (all individually addressable) and 24v (which are addressable per section or as […]
Why Ethernet cable (CAT5e, CAT6, etc.) isn’t suitable for LEDs Back to article index Often people ask if they can use some left over CAT5e or CAT6 Ethernet cable for the LED installations for providing data and/or power injections to their LEDs. The TL;DR of the story is that Ethernet cable isn’t very suited to […]
The ultimate LED strip power injection guide Back to article index One of the most popular topics with addressable LED strip is power injection (or sometimes also wrongly referred to as voltage injection). This is the practice of running extra wires next to your LED strip to add extra power injection points. Especially with 5v […]
Should you replace default wires on LED strip or How much can a single injection point handle? Back to Addressable LEDs section When starting out doing your own LED strip installs (Analog or Digital) there is a lot of information to digest and one of them is how much current you need and especially for […]
Specialty strips The strips I put in this category have some special feature which makes them stand out from normal LED strip. Think of things like having a different form, amount of LEDs or construction. COB LED strip A COB LED strip is constructed differently vs a normal LED strip. Instead of soldering SMD […]