[Swansea Hackspace] LEDs strip lighting

[Gerrit Niezen]

The RGB LED light strip that I demoed at the first technical meeting back in April 2013 (http://swansea.hackspace.org.uk/Meetings/20130422) had 60 LEDs/metre (the slides at that link has all the details).

I bought them from Adafruit (http://www.adafruit.com/products/1138) and just noticed you can now buy a mind-boggling 144 LEDs/metre strip (http://www.adafruit.com/products/1507). It does pull 7A at 5V though.

Richard, the design of that remote control you linked to looks like a bit of a rip-off of the Philips LivingColors remote control from 2010:
http://www.core77.com/blog/featured_items/neocon_2010_video_control_the_color_of_your_room_by_remote__16745.asp 
Philips has been improving on that design in the past 4 years: http://www.philips.co.uk/c-p/6916431PH/livingcolors

Keep in mind that when using RGB LED light strips, the three LEDs are turned up to full brightness to give you a white colour, which consumes the most power.

Cheers,
Gerrit


On 10 Oct 2014, at 09:43, Ceri Clatworthy <ceri.clatworthy at gmail.com> wrote:

> I got this:
> http://www.banggood.com/LED-Rigid-Strip-Light-50cm-12V-36-SMD-7020-U-Shape-White-p-909736.html
> 
> from china.
> 
> 
> Beautiful clean white (not warm white)
> 
> very bright, but they do run warm, but not hot.
> 
> If i remember will bring one tomorrow !!!
> 
> Ceri
> 
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Graham Owens <grahamowensuk at googlemail.com> wrote:
> My father in law has done exactly this, but i am unable to confirm what brand he used etc at the moment?  but he regularly tells my wife how bright it is (apparently green is much brighter than the others, i spend my time making postulations that it is an illusion and their eyes are just more sensitive to green light <338.gif>)
> 
> Graham
> 
> On 10 October 2014 09:18, Richard Morgan <richard.morgan at avocation.co.uk> wrote:
> I have a conservatory that requires lighting - it's a bit dark in these Winter months.
> 
> I'm looking to put LED strips across the roof beams and was wondering about using LED strips but not sure how much light they would give off at a distance though. I also like the RF controller idea for running them and changing brightness / colours...
> 
> It's about 8.5ft high at the mid-point and I would likely run these up the diagonal beams - about 11ft in length.
> 
> http://www.simplelighting.co.uk/products/2M,-Colour-Changing-RGB-30-LED-Tape-kit.html?gclid=Cj0KEQjwh96hBRCnsefbvZrKrpcBEiQAF7oMdOySrl94A5MYfcfSsRcnOaTB2iNcbVePy3vAJYcR1FMaAqHp8P8HAQ
> 
> We would mostly be using the white colour but the option to change it for kids parties etc would be cool.
> 
> Is this a dumb idea? Would they give off enough light at that distance?
> 
> All suggestions very gratefully received....
> 
> 
> -- 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Richard
> 
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