LEDs need cooling Back to article index LEDs (in whatever form) convert electricity into light. The revolutionary thing about them is that they are a much more efficient light source then all lights that came before it. Sadly, they still aren’t 100% efficient in converting energy to light. During the conversion, energy is lost and […]
Sometimes you need cheap Although I really recommend getting a good (or at least decent) quality LED strip (check this article (bottom for cheaper but good alternatives), sometimes you just need light and it needs to be cheap! Or, you need a lot of light, insane amounts but you don’t want to pay a lot! […]
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Power Supply Considerations If you want your LEDs to light up, you’re going to need a power supply! These come in lots of shapes and sizes and you need to figure out what you are going to need for your project. Although overkill (in wattage/amperage) mostly isn’t a problem, an power supply that has been […]
RGB (Red Green Blue) strips RGB strips come in lots of different shapes and sizes. Most strips use a 5050 LED package (5mmx5mm) with 3 colors inside of them. This means that each little LED module has a tiny LED in it for each color. Since what you are trying to light is always “far […]
Analog vs Digital LED strip Analog Analog LED strips are either a single color (red, purple or for instance warm white) or can be RGB by using multiple tiny LEDs in all LED chips on the strip. This means the strip can only be a single color at a time and the dim level […]