I don't mind a down-the-line failure, as my lights are not mission critical. I agree though, using cheap Chinese 2801 chips and un-proven implementation, I wouldn't be using a serial system like this at a rock concert.
I think though, it's a simple way to put several RGB lighting elements...
Hi all,
My first post here. I have built homemade hi power RGB floods that utilize WS2801 chips along with RS-422 driver/receiver comms chips. I have bench tested my floods using an Arduino, and all seems to work well.
The goal of my project was to build scalable, med-power to very high power...