Different Styles of Pixels
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Pixel Properties
Pixels come in many different shapes and properties. The most common properties are:
Form Factor
- Strings (Can be any length, but more then 50 pixels will require power injection)
- Strips (Usually 5M length)
- Modules
LEDs per meter
- Strips
(Note, many 12VDC strips have 3 LEDs wired together as one pixel)
- 30 LED/m
- 60 LED/m
- Strings
- 10 LED/m (100mm spacing between nodes is common )
Power Supply Voltage
(Note: LEDs generally draw 20ma per color, or 60ma (0.06A) per pixel)
- 5VDC
- 12VDC
- 24VDC
LED Type
Waterproofing
(don't trust the IP ratings, they vary quite a bit!) Additional information about sealing pixel strings
Control chip and number of wires
(3 wire= V+,GND,Data) (4 wire=V+,GND,Data,Clock)
- 4 bits per color, 16 dimming levels per color. (Total Colors = 16x16x16 = 4,096 colors)
- GE Color Effects (GECE)- 3 wire
- 5 bits per color, 32 dimming levels per color. (Total Colors = 32x32x32 = 32,768 colors)
- LPD6803 - 4 wire
- D705 - 4 wire
- LPD1101
- UCS6909
- UCS6912
- 7 bits per color, 128 dimming levels per color. (Total Colors = 128x128x128 = 2,097,152colors)
- LPD8806
- LPD8809
- 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 (can drive 9 channels, or 3 RGB LEDs)
- TM1812 (can drive 12 channels, or 4 RGB LEDs)
- SM16715
- SM16716
- P9813 - 4 wire
- P9816 - 4 wire
- HX512A (Native DMX)
- 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
- 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)
- 4 bits per color, 16 dimming levels per color. (Total Colors = 16x16x16 = 4,096 colors)