Different Styles of Pixels

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Styles of Pixels

Pixels come in many different shapes and properties. The most common properties are:

• Form Factor
  1. Strings (Can be any length, but more then 50 pixels will require power injection)
  2. Strips (Usually 5M length)
     • Bare board (no waterproofing)
     • Hollow Tube
     • Solid Tube
       • Solid Silicone
       • Solid Epoxy Resin
  3. Modules
• LEDs per meter (Note, many strips have 3 LEDs wired together as an addressable unit)
  1. • 30 LED/m
     • 60 LED/m
• Power Supply Voltage
  1. 5VDC
  2. 12VDC
  3. 24VDC
• LED Type
  1. 3528 surface mount (3.5mm x 2.8mm)
  2. 5050 surface mount (5.0mm x 5.0mm)
  3. 8mm
• Control chip and number of wires (3 wire= V+,GND,Data) (4 wire=V+,GND,Data,Clock)
  1. 4 bits per color, 16 dimming levels per color. (Total Colors = 16x16x16 = 4,096 colors)
     • GE Color Effects (GECE)
  2. 5 bits per color, 32 dimming levels per color. (Total Colors = 32x32x32 = 32,768 colors)
     • LPD6803 - 4 wire
     • D705 - 4 wire
     • LPD1101
     • UCS6909
     • UCS6912
  3. 7 bits per color, 128 dimming levels per color. (Total Colors = 128x128x128 = 2,097,152colors)
     • LPD8806
     • LPD8809
  4. 8 bits per color, 256 dimming levels per color. (Total Colors = 256x256x256 = 16,777,216 colors)
     • WS2801 - 4 wire
     • WS2803
     • WS2811 - 3 wire
     • TM1803 - 3 wire
     • TM1804 - 3 wire
     • TM1809 - 3 wire
     • TM1812
     • SM16715
     • SM16716
     • P9813 - 4 wire
     • P9816 - 4 wire
     • HX512A (Native DMX)
  5. 12 bits per color, 4,096 dimming levels per color. (Total Colors = 4096x4096x4096 = 68,719,476,736 colors) (Note: E1.31 and DMX only support 8 bit data, so the extra bits are used for gamma color correction)
     • TLS3001 - 3 wire
     • TLS3002
     • CYT3001
     • CYT3005 - 3 wire
  6. 14 bits per color, 16,834 dimming levels per color. (Total Colors = 16834*16834*16834 = 4,642,956,181,504 colors) (Note: E1.31 and DMX only support 8 bit data, so the extra bits are used for gamma color correction)
     • MY9941 (Native DMX)
     • MY9942 (Native DMX)
     • MY9943 (Native DMX)