8 CHANNEL WS2812 5050 RGB LED LIGHTS

These little 8 LED RGB Addressable Neopixel sticks are perfect for adding a pop of colour to your latest project. Each LED is super fun and glowy and you can control them all individually via your  connected Microcontroller including brightness level and any RGB colour you can throw at it, that’s right millions of colors at your fingertips 8bit led.

The sticks required 3 connections to run: A voltage source (5V), ground and a data connection from your microcontroller. You can easily chain as many of these together as you would like, each stick has an “In” data side and an “Out” data side which you can chain from one stick to the other and have data coming in from one end

Each LED is technically capable of drawing 60mA when the LED is at 100% brightness in the colour white (Ie. 100% red, green and blue) although in normal colour sweeping modes, it is unlikely that you will ever be running the LEDs at that high of a current. A good rule of thumb when estimating an appropriate power supply is to assume a current draw of 20mA per LED. So if you have 10 LEDs. you will need a power supply capable of delivering 200mA. Having a power supply that can deliver more than the required current is never a bad thing, just make sure that it remains at 5 volts, that’s important!

• • Supply Voltage: 4 ~ 7VDC
  • NeoPixel compatible
  • LED Type: 8 Addressable RGB LEDs in series
  • Viewing angle: 120 degrees
  • Red: (620-630nm) @ 550-700mcd
  • Green: (515-530nm) @ 1100-1400mcd
  • Blue: (465-475nm) @ 200-400mcd

Wiring / Connection:

• • DI: Data from a microcontroller (or another WS2812 pixel) comes into this pin.
  • 5V: This should be a regulated supply voltage between 4V and about 7V. More than that could harm the LED, less than 5V will either reduce brightness, or it just won’t turn on.
  • GND: The common, ground, 0V reference supply voltage.
  • DO: Data is shifted out of this pin, to be connected to the input of another pixel or left floating if it is the last link in the chain.

Applications:

• • Decorations
  • Back illuminations
  • Tape Light signs
  • Recreational purposes

Package Includes:

• • 1 x NeoPixel Strip 8 X WS2812 RGB Addressable LED