To be fair, there are prebuilt controllers that plug right in and do all this stuff for you. Power included. But where's the fun in that!

@huckohio In the Factory Firmware folder there is an image. I would copy that. I know you can put different .bin files to different locations a...

@will So is that the forward current? I guess an LED is a diode after all, I just never/never needed to think about that with regular diodes. Or...

@will I will be using wires to get from the control box to the strip. I would have to cut one off the end that I am not using(the leftovers) and st...

@will Yes, exactly. The only problem with it is that I would have to strip away part of the coating the gives the strip its IP rating. Having done ...

@will Yes, it's the control pin that I am concerned about. I was initially going to run it direct and see what happens but once I install it under ...

@will The issue is that the controller is 3.3 logic and the LEDs need 5v. I need to step up the logic from 3v to 5v.

I have reuploaded/updated LuaNode32 before. Your not loading the INO files. I would assume that when it compiles, it will include those INO files in t...

A LED can send more Volts than it receives. Sure. The IC detects high/low signal based off of its supply voltage and then retransmits the mess...

Ok, so I read that most 5050 LEDs have issues with 3v logic. There seems to be a trick of feeding the first LED a slightly reduced voltage but in betw...

LEDs are here. Positives and negatives are all connected to each other. It looks like they are just simple bus bars. I will try and run it off of 3 vo...

Nah, stick a Binford sticker on it and blast it! Actually...your probably right, I don't need a blind kitten.

@zander Are they WS2812 with 5050rgb chips? I have a few of the regular separate RGBW channel ones and they do run much lower power. For this proje...

@will Yeah, good to be back. I've been working so much that I haven't had any time to play around with electronics. Now I feel really rusty and...

Ok, thank you. That was what it sounded like but I was unsure. I would never power it with 2 different power sources. And now that I think of it, I wi...