Use a pre manufactured strip light controller with adafruit

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rycoelectric
 
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Use a pre manufactured strip light controller with adafruit

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So... I'm an electrician and I do led strip light installations fairly often, but I usually just go to my local supply house and they essentially give me a kit to install. Now I grasp how this rgb and rgbw analog strip light works and I can figure out or learn just about anything I need to, but I am, hitting a roadblock with this.

I want to use an undetermined Adifruit strip light of some sort, but I want to use a pre manufactured driver and controller and I'm pretty sure it would be wise for myself to avoid trying to install something that needs to be built first and programmed as this stuff is going into customers houses and I just need it to work and since this is a bit more of a business endeavor and not a hobby (at least not on sight of a job... ) This means time is of the essence and I really wouldn't be able to spend time on experimenting with building and programing drivers.

Can anyone point me to some hardware that I can use to control a few different zones of some digital strip light by adafruit? Thank you

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Re: Use a pre manufactured strip light controller with adafr

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I'm afraid we don't have any pre-built controllers.

Simple controllers do exist for analog RGB LED strips, but they don't give you control of individual pixels or groups of pixels. The whole strip shows the same color.

We mostly use NeoPixels, which are addressable and have a built-in PWM controller for each LED:

https://www.adafruit.com/category/168

The generic name for the device is WS2812, and there are pre-made controllers for those which have a few basic pattern options. We don't happen to carry any, because they're usually more expensive and less versatile than a microcontroller.

Even a small board like a Trinket M0 can control a fairly long strip of NeoPixels:

https://www.adafruit.com/product/3500

But we have a board called the NeoPXL8 which can control eight strips simultaneously:

https://www.adafruit.com/product/3249

It fits on the Feather M0:

https://www.adafruit.com/product/2772

and we have a full code library to make it work.

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