Sean Meighan
Welcome => Do You Need Help? Post it here => Topic started by: ArthurJuelfs on November 28, 2021, 03:09:06 PM
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I have 5 WS2811 led strips connected together with power injection to the end of each strip. If I turn them on with just blue they work fine but if I have it set to bars with red, yellow, blue, orange then green blue works on only the first 2 strips only any suggestions?
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You'll need to power inject more often.
For full 100% brightness, 12V lights will need power injection around every 2 strings of lights connected (100 lights). Highest is probably every 125 lights, but you'd have to splice in a power tee.
I ran into a similar issue, also using WS2811 lights. I have been waiting on an extra power distro circuit board to arrive in the mail and in the meantime, I tried to lower the brightness to all the strands and my last section of lights wouldn't function properly because of the lack of proper power. I tried 50% brightness, but that just wouldn't work still, so until the circuit board arrives tomorrow, I disconnected those in-operable sections.
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The strips I have are 5V 30 LED/meter 5 meters long = 150 LEDs I have power injected at the end of every strip so do I need to inject power at the beginning and end
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The rule of thumb for 5v Pixels is to inject power after every 50 pixels.