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bruhautomation / ESP-MQTT-JSON-Digital-LEDs

(OBSOLETE) ESP8266 MQTT JSON Digital LEDs for Home Assistant
https://youtu.be/9KI36GTgwuQ
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Problem with some effects (not enough power) #78

Closed klaasnicolaas closed 6 years ago

klaasnicolaas commented 6 years ago

For a while I was already programming an LED system in which the script of this repository was taken as the basis. The first tests I did on a LED ring of 24 LEDs but since today I am testing on a strip of 4 meters (240 LEDs).

I now notice that when I test "rainbow", the color blue at the beginning of the strip does just fine, but no longer occurs towards the end of the strip or very weak. So from the middle to the end of the LED strip, blue no longer appears or very weak (1 LED).

I also see this happening with the "police all" LED effect.

It is difficult to describe I can possibly add a video to it that makes it clear.

klaasnicolaas commented 6 years ago

After a lot of tests on I found out that the 2nd part of the strip does not get enough power. Which means that you also need to supply the LED strip at the end with power (at least if you use 4-5 meters) so that everything works properly.

Through this page on github I found out: https://github.com/FastLED/FastLED/issues/311