LED Strip Turns On By Itself: What Is Sending the Command?
When an LED strip turns on by itself, something upstream is sending it a command. The tape has no logic of its own: it lights when a driver supplies power...
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When an LED strip turns on by itself, something upstream is sending it a command. The tape has no logic of its own: it lights when a driver supplies power...
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Three things account for the same complaint, and only one of them is free to fix. Either the wires went back in the wrong order at a color strip, or...
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When only half my LED strip lights up, the boundary between lit and dark is doing the diagnostic work for you. Four things put a hard edge in a run:...
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When an LED strip won't turn on, the cause sits upstream of the tape far more often than inside it. Follow the power in sequence and stop at the first...
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Four things make an LED strip different colors along the run, and they are easy to tell apart once you know what each one looks like. Tape from more than...
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What makes an LED strip dimmer at one end is almost always voltage lost on the way down the tape, not a failing product. The far end draws its power...
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Walk past a coffee shop with a script logo glowing above the counter and there is a fair chance it is not glass. LED neon flex is a flexible extruded...
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Two families of flexible strip are sold in the United States, and they are not two versions of the same thing. One plugs into a line-voltage circuit and converts the...
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In a theater, a hotel lobby, or a restaurant fit-out, one desk usually runs everything on the lighting plan, and the coves are expected to answer to it like any...
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A pixel strip carries something ordinary tape does not: a data line. Power runs along the length as usual, and beside it a signal travels from the controller into the...
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Hold a lit strip two inches off a wall and the light lands as a bright band with hard edges. Pull it back a foot, or put a frosted cover...
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An LED strip turns a good share of its input power into light, and the remainder leaves as heat through the circuit board and whatever the tape is stuck to....
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