Open phenze opened 5 years ago
I am not sure if there are LED strips out there which cause the problems people are facing (but probably there are). As long as you make sure they are based on WS2818B LEDs you should be fine. But of course there will be differences in strip quality regarding the manufacturing and the quality of the rest of the material. For what it's worth, I'm successfully using these. In my opinion the rest of the components and the routing of the connections are as important, probably even more important:
Hope this helps.
Hello @FrankX0 , thank you for your input! (and for the great new Web Interface by the way !!)
Regarding your points i have the following input:
HI @phenze For point number 3, I have considered using these : https://www.ebay.com/itm/232374294719
@kimthostrup that's great !
Thank you !
Setup which works for me right now:
LED: https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B07439RXD3/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 PI: Raspberry Pi Zero Power: https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00MWQF08C/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Pi powered with 5V from LED power supply (did not work with Pi on USB) No levelshifter No buttons
Working fine, power supply only getting warm with all LEDs turned on.
Regarding the power supply: I have built 3 clocks where I for each use an old notebook power supply (23V) and I use 5V step-down convertors to step down to 5V. I use minimal 5: one for the Pi and 4 for 4 groups of LEDS. The ground is common for all step-down convertors. All 3 clocks work. Advantages:
Because I also use servos and motors in my clocks, they use different step-downs set to 6V.
The build deviates from the current description, but so far my experience is quite good. Anyone else gone this route?
Since a few people(including me) have several problems with their LED stripes can anybody recommend any LED Stripe which is working without trouble ?
Perhaps we can update the hardware list in the documentation with some points you have to pay attention when buying the hardware ?
It is kind frustrating when building the clock with cheap/broken LED Stripes and then searching errors for weeks.