App-controlled LED lighting lets you set color, brightness, and color temperature from your phone through a smart controller wired into the strip. The phone is not the control device on...
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An RF remote LED strip system uses radio frequency signals to talk to your lighting instead of a wired wall panel or a line of sight infrared beam. You press...
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When you are choosing RGB, RGBW and RGB+CCT controls, the single rule that governs everything is that the controller must match the strip's channel count. RGB strips use three channels,...
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A tunable white LED controller changes the color temperature of a white LED strip by mixing two white channels, a warm white and a cool white, in different proportions. Feed...
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To dim a single-color LED strip you need only one thing beyond the strip and its power supply: a device that adjusts brightness, either a dimmer or a simple single-channel...
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Learning how to choose an LED controller comes down to one habit: read the strip first, then match the controller to it. The controller has to agree with your strip...
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In an LED controller vs dimmer comparison, the short answer is that a dimmer changes one thing, brightness, while a controller changes several things at once, such as color, color...
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When LED strip lights flicker, buzz, or shut off, the cause is almost always a mismatch or a limit somewhere in the system rather than a faulty strip. The most...
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Choosing an LED driver for the right location means matching the driver's environmental rating to where it will actually sit, not just the strip. A driver built for dry indoor...
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Power injection is a technique for keeping a long LED strip run bright and even by feeding power to it at more than one point, instead of only at one...
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Wire gauge affects LED strip brightness because thinner wire has more electrical resistance, and more resistance means more voltage lost between the driver and the strip. That lost voltage shows...
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An LED driver can be located a fair distance from the strip, but the low-voltage wiring between them is where distance matters most, because that is the side where voltage...
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