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Adafruit NeoPixel RGBW LED Strip - White PCB 60 LED/m 1m
· MPN: ADA2846
Add individually addressable RGB plus white lighting to your project with this flexible NeoPixel strip. Each pixel contains red, green, blue and white LEDs, ...
Add individually addressable RGB plus white lighting to your project with this flexible NeoPixel strip. Each pixel contains red, green, blue and white LEDs, giving you colourful effects plus a dedicated white channel for brighter, cleaner white output.
This version has 60 LEDs per metre, a clear weatherproof sheathing and a white flexible PCB. The strip can be cut at the marked cut-lines, soldered to the 0.1" copper pads, or joined to other strips to make longer runs, provided your power supply can handle the current.
NeoPixels use an 800 KHz single-wire protocol, so only one digital output pin is needed for data. The PWM is handled inside each LED package, so once colours are set the strip continues driving the LEDs without constant updates from your microcontroller.
Adafruit’s NeoPixel library supports RGBW strips, and the NeoPixel Uberguide includes wiring help, power calculations, library support and example code for boards such as Arduino UNO, Flora, Micro, Leonardo, Trinket, Gemma, Arduino Due and Arduino Mega/ADK.
Specifications:
- LED density: 60 LED/m
- Length: 1m
- LED channels: red, green, blue and white
- Colour control: 8-bit PWM per channel
- Overall colour depth: 32-bit color per pixel
- Protocol: 800 KHz
- PWM rate: 400 Hz
- LED size: 5050-sized LEDs
- Control pin requirement: 1 digital output pin
- PCB colour: White flex PCB
- Casing: clear casing
- Sheathing: weatherproof sheathing
- Cut spacing: every 0.65"/1.7cm
- Cut spacing LEDs: 1 LED each
- Solder pads: 0.1" copper pads
- Required supply voltage: 5V DC
- Maximum voltage warning: do not use higher than 6V
- Suggested supply for 1 metre: 5V/2A supply, depending on use
- Suggested supply for up to 4 metres: 5V/10A supply, depending on use
For wiring, JST SM plug and receptacle cables are suggested, along with a 2.1mm DC jack if you want to connect a suitable wall adapter for power.
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Plain-language definitions for the technical terms used above.
- Colour depth
- Colour depth describes how many different colours a display can show. A 65K-colour display can show about 65,000 colours, which is useful for icons, graphs, and simple full-colour interfaces but is less detailed than modern phone or computer screens.
- LED
- A light-emitting diode is a small electronic component that lights up when current flows through it in the correct direction. In this kit, LEDs create the flashing effect, so polarity and correct soldering matter for the project to work.
- microcontroller
- A microcontroller is a small computer on a chip that runs your program and controls connected inputs and outputs. For this product, it is the part that reads buttons and sensors, drives the display and speaker, and communicates over Bluetooth.
- NeoPixel
- A type of addressable LED system where colour data is sent along a single digital data line from one LED or controller to the next. Compatibility matters because the timing and signal format must match for the lights or driver board to respond correctly.
- PCB
- A printed circuit board is a rigid board with copper tracks that connect electronic parts without loose wires. For this kit, the PCBs also form the airplane shape, so they are both the circuit base and part of the finished model.
- PWM
- Pulse Width Modulation is a way for a digital pin to simulate variable output power by switching on and off very quickly. It matters for controlling things like LED brightness, motor speed, or servo-style signals from a microcontroller pin.
- RGB
- Short for red, green and blue, usually referring to an LED that can mix those three colours. It matters because controlling an RGB LED teaches how separate outputs combine to create different colours.
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