I am new to LED strips. I am redoing my stairs - replacing carpet with wooden treads. I want to take this opportunity to upgrade with LED lighting, which is quite cool from the videos I’ve seen. Here is the overal lay of the land:
13 steps
Would like to have RGBW strips across the steps
Would like to have motion sensors at the top and bottom of stairs.
Pretty standard stuff from what I have studied in the forums, youtube, etc. The question I have is what is the most flexible wiring that can be built into the stairs while I am deciding on the type of strips, voltages, etc? Should I run 3 wires to one end of each step or 5? Should I also plan for serial connection of data wires, i.e., data out from strip 1 to data in of strip 2 and so on?
I do not have direct access to the back of the staircase, so need to open up dry walls. I want to make sure I set it up right when I open up dry walls.
I am reasonably comfortable with the software / configutation. But I want to be done with this wiring first.
hi @TellaPuli Welcome
just use standar Stripes prefer 1meter 30Led
Wire like Zig zag up
if ju use this its prety cheep aropund 25USD
use a D1 Mini )) i prefer the D1 wemos UNO board as it is just plug and play to ws2812b
you can add a Distance sensor so you can get segments of your starway Colored
Thanks much for your response. I thought it would be better to run V+ & GND wires to each strip directly so that voltage drop can be minimized, while the data wire can be zig-zagged as you suggest.
If I decide on RGBW COB strip, then do I need to zig-zag multiple data wires, say 4 of them? Is WLED able to handle RGBW COB strips?
What is the limitation of WLED on number of LEDs per strip and/or total number of LEDs on 13 steps?
some here managed 20 stripes with a distance sensor and segmentation on the stripe to handle 20 stairs only 3 → 90 led ON at the time
so then with the D1Uno ESP8266 Board and a simple USB Plug 1.5A with no extra cable