Well I am very excited, put together my first two mini trees last night, one with LED strips and one with Pixels (both WS2811) and had a great time playing with them all night.
However I am very disappointed in the colour quality / saturation of the pixels, the strips colours are very intense and pure, but the pixels, colours are relatively indistinct, milky of course given the diffusion lens, however if I say did a yellow to red gradient on the tree, with the strips it is brilliant, with the pixels, it was almost impossible to tell where the colours changed.
I don't know if this purely because of the milky diffusion lens, if so, are the better quality ones? Can you get pixels with clear lenses, am I missing something?
Pixels ordered were
http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/DC5V-50nodes-WS2811-addreable-LED-pixel-module-pixel-string-IP68-rated-RGB-full-color-256-gray/701799_32225918892.html
(these have Red, White, Black wires in the description, I actually received blue,green,red.... should be the same other than the wire colour I expect)
However I am very disappointed in the colour quality / saturation of the pixels, the strips colours are very intense and pure, but the pixels, colours are relatively indistinct, milky of course given the diffusion lens, however if I say did a yellow to red gradient on the tree, with the strips it is brilliant, with the pixels, it was almost impossible to tell where the colours changed.
I don't know if this purely because of the milky diffusion lens, if so, are the better quality ones? Can you get pixels with clear lenses, am I missing something?
Pixels ordered were
http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/DC5V-50nodes-WS2811-addreable-LED-pixel-module-pixel-string-IP68-rated-RGB-full-color-256-gray/701799_32225918892.html
(these have Red, White, Black wires in the description, I actually received blue,green,red.... should be the same other than the wire colour I expect)