<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">The RGB LED light strip that I demoed at the first technical meeting back in April 2013 (<a href="http://swansea.hackspace.org.uk/Meetings/20130422">http://swansea.hackspace.org.uk/Meetings/20130422</a>) had 60 LEDs/metre (the slides at that link has all the details).<div><br></div><div>I bought them from Adafruit (<a href="http://www.adafruit.com/products/1138">http://www.adafruit.com/products/1138</a>) and just noticed you can now buy a mind-boggling 144 LEDs/metre strip (<a href="http://www.adafruit.com/products/1507">http://www.adafruit.com/products/1507</a>). It does pull 7A@5V though.</div><div><br></div><div>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:</div><div><a href="http://www.core77.com/blog/featured_items/neocon_2010_video_control_the_color_of_your_room_by_remote__16745.asp">http://www.core77.com/blog/featured_items/neocon_2010_video_control_the_color_of_your_room_by_remote__16745.asp</a> </div><div>Philips has been improving on that design in the past 4 years: <a href="http://www.philips.co.uk/c-p/6916431PH/livingcolors">http://www.philips.co.uk/c-p/6916431PH/livingcolors</a></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Gerrit</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 10 Oct 2014, at 09:43, Ceri Clatworthy <<a href="mailto:ceri.clatworthy@gmail.com">ceri.clatworthy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">I got this:</div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.banggood.com/LED-Rigid-Strip-Light-50cm-12V-36-SMD-7020-U-Shape-White-p-909736.html">http://www.banggood.com/LED-Rigid-Strip-Light-50cm-12V-36-SMD-7020-U-Shape-White-p-909736.html</a></font><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">from china.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Beautiful clean white (not warm white)</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">very bright, but they do run warm, but not hot.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">If i remember will bring one tomorrow !!!</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Ceri</font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Graham Owens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:grahamowensuk@googlemail.com" target="_blank">grahamowensuk@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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 <span><338.gif></span>)<div><br></div><div>Graham</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On 10 October 2014 09:18, Richard Morgan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard.morgan@avocation.co.uk" target="_blank">richard.morgan@avocation.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">I have a conservatory that requires lighting - it's a bit dark in these Winter months.<div><br></div><div>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...</div><div><br></div><div>It's about 8.5ft high at the mid-point and I would likely run these up the diagonal beams - about 11ft in length.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.simplelighting.co.uk/products/2M,-Colour-Changing-RGB-30-LED-Tape-kit.html?gclid=Cj0KEQjwh96hBRCnsefbvZrKrpcBEiQAF7oMdOySrl94A5MYfcfSsRcnOaTB2iNcbVePy3vAJYcR1FMaAqHp8P8HAQ" target="_blank">http://www.simplelighting.co.uk/products/2M,-Colour-Changing-RGB-30-LED-Tape-kit.html?gclid=Cj0KEQjwh96hBRCnsefbvZrKrpcBEiQAF7oMdOySrl94A5MYfcfSsRcnOaTB2iNcbVePy3vAJYcR1FMaAqHp8P8HAQ</a><br clear="all"><div><br></div><div>We would mostly be using the white colour but the option to change it for kids parties etc would be cool.</div><div><br></div><div>Is this a dumb idea? Would they give off enough light at that distance?</div><div><br></div><div>All suggestions very gratefully received....</div><span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br>Kind regards,<br><br>Richard
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