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Brian74:
I would like to get some rgb led strip light to put under my cab. What ones will work with a led-wiz?
CoryBee:
I just ordered 3 strips of the RGB and 1 white strip. 5m each. I do not have an LED Wiz but I too would like to know if anyone hooked these things up to one. Thanks. :cheers:
Brian74:
Where did you get yours from?
CoryBee:

--- Quote from: Brian74 on July 18, 2012, 08:08:59 am ---Where did you get yours from?

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Ebay my good man. Got the white ones from a US seller, should be here tomorrow, for $15 shipped. Got three RGB ones from a Overseas seller for $12 each ( estimated to be here by the 25th ).

I thought about it and you should be able to run these on an LED controller. Might have to cut a piece of the strip off for the individual ports on the LED-wiz.

If your not sure what I am talking about I can create a diagram. Surprised someone else isn't chiming in, maybe no one has tried it before.
Mysterioii:
There are two main types of RGB LED strips... addressable (each LED can be a different color...  the strips incorporate little driver chips like the WS2801 family or similar) and non-adressable (every LED in the same strip is the same color at any point in time).

The addressable strips... nope.  Use an arduino or your favorite microcontroller.  You have to clock in serial data for each pixel's color levels and the chips incorporate shift registers that push the data on down the line.  LEDWiz can't handle that.

Non-addressable strips...  sure, in theory.  These things have a lot of LEDs and depending on the length of your final run will require quite a bit of current so you may need to add mosfets on each color channel and use them as switches with the LEDwiz just acting as a controller to turn the mosfets on or off.  Otherwise I'm pretty sure you'll fry your ledwiz.

I have not tried this on an ledwiz yet but I have several LED strips both addressable and non-addressable lying around and have run them off an arduino...  making plans, not enough free time to realize them yet...   :lol
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