NeoPixel Digital RGB LED Strip - Black 30 LED - BLACK

PRODUCT ID: 1460

Description

You thought it couldn't get better than our world‐famous 32‐LED‐per‐meter Digital LED strip but we will 

prove you wrong! These NeoPixel strips have 30 digitally‐addressable pixel LEDs per meter and are very 

affordable and are only 12.5 mm wide, 10 mm if you remove the strip from the casing. This is the strip with 

black flex PCB, its identical to the white 30 LED/meter except it has a different color mask on the flex strip

There are some things to watch for:

These LED's use about 9.5 Watts max (~2 Amps @ 5V) per meter. The max rating is assuming all

the LEDs are on full white, usually the actual current for colorful design is about 1/3 to 1/2 the

max current. A good power supply such as our 5V 2A or 10A supply is key!

Second, to get high density, the controller chip is inside the LED, which is kind of cool, but also

means that the chip only uses a single pin for input and a single pin for output. The protocol used

is very very timing-specific and can only be controlled by microcontrollers with highly repeatable

100nS timing precision. We have example code for using with the Arduino Uno/Mega

microcontroller at 8MHz and 16MHz, and with a little effort you can use with the Raspberry Pi,

or Beagle Bone Black, but it will not work with the Basic Stamp, NETduino, any other

interpreted/virtual machine microprocessor or any processor slower than 8 MHz. For those

processors, check our DotStar digital LED strip which has SPI-like input/output and works easily

with Pi, NETduino, and other processors.

The way the pixels are controlled by an Arduino, the entire strip must be buffered in memory, and

we've found many Arduino UNO projects only have about a 1500bytes of RAM available after all the

extras are included - enough for about 500 LED pixels. If you want to drive the entire strip and

have some other libraries included, you may need to use a Mega.