Hello,
I have recently bought and installed 4x5m strips of w2811, 5050, 12 volt leds which have 60 leds per meter and are adressable every 3 leds. So there are 20 adressable units or “pixels” per meter. These strips have 3 pins 12v+ GND and DATA.
Right now I have each 5m strip of led completely separately connected to the PSU and several cheap DMX controllers so they don’t even share DATA signals or anything and I think I couldn’t even address 2 strips with a single DMX universe anyway.
If I’m going to use WLED can or should I solder together the DATA pins of each strip? I will still power them separately.
If I do so, will I be able to use it as a long continous strip and address it as such? It’d be easier to program for light shows I think and look better because with the cheap controllers I think there’s some latency and most (pre programmed) light shows don’t cross over strips.
Do I have to worry about latency at this length?(20m)
Do I have to worry about the strip being too long to be adressable? At 20meters it’d have 400 “pixels” or adressable units. I’d like to use the DMX/ArtNet feature of WLED later if possible.
This is my first home project and I couldn’t find a clear answer after reading the wiki because it is more hardware oriented. Thanks in advance for any help!
