when testing 300 led strip 3 leds light up

[vipersinu2]

hello

when testing ws2811 5050 5m 300 leds.  is it normal that when I click the 1st node, the first 3 leds lite up red, when I click 2 node 3 led light up blue. and when I click the 3 node 3 led light up green.

I kinda think when I click node 1, 1 led should be red, then when I click node 2, 1 led should be blue, and when I click node 3, 1 led should be green.

thank for the help.
Jason

[Gilrock]

It's normal to have strips where 3 leds light up per controllable pixel.  You can only control however many black chips there are on the strip. You'll probably see that there are 3 leds for each black chip.

[vipersinu2]

Gilrock thank you for the reply, does that mean in my sequence that there will be large clusters of 3 leds will be red, blue,green that will be lighting up at once?

[vipersinu2]

oh man these lights are not like the 5v ws2812b strips that I have. On the ws2812b each led is capable of RBG.
I went with the 12v B/C of voltage drop is a real pain with the 5V.
If I would have know that I probably would have on got the ws2812b for the mega tree. I feel that ws2811 might distort the sequence. and the ws2812b would look better.

Jason

[Gilrock]

No the sequence is normal it does not need to know that data for one pixel lights up 3.  I use these same strips they look fine for my ribbon tree.  Just make sure when you define the model you enter the actual number of controllable nodes.  Like a strip listed as 30/10 per meter for 5 meters means 30 leds in a meter times 5 is 150 leds but you would only enter 50 for number of nodes because its that 10 value that specifies the number of IC's.

[vipersinu2]

Gilrock that make sense.
My lights are 5m 300leds, In Xlights where is says string/node type in 100?
Also in the falcon f16v2 should I change the pixels from 300 to 100?
Thank you
Jason

[Gilrock]

Yep change to 100 in both places.

[vipersinu2]

Gilrock,

Thanks for the tip, it worked perfectly.