Just some information for anyone interested...
I'm looking at adding quite a few seed pixels as part of a matrix this year and have been investigating the 24V options.
They are individually addressable, but need to be cut every six pixels due to the power supply wiring. They have four wires, however the fourth wire is for the power circuit, rather than a backup data line.
With a string of 300 at 10cm spacing, they were drawing 568mA @ 24V at the source, and the voltage measured at the end of the string was ~21.7V.
Initially I had 940 connected up, and the load of the additional pixels was causing them to stop working a few pixels past ~250, hence the cut at 300. You could probably squeeze a few more out if needed.
The other thing to note about these is that they draw the exact same current regardless of colour or brightness - there is no change between them being off or on full white.
For my application I'm looking for these with 2cm spacing, however I'm not aware of any supplier that can do that right now. Two suppliers I've spoken with claim they will be able to make them with some new machines they hope to have up and running in the next month.
A couple of rough videos showing them in action:
I'm looking at adding quite a few seed pixels as part of a matrix this year and have been investigating the 24V options.
They are individually addressable, but need to be cut every six pixels due to the power supply wiring. They have four wires, however the fourth wire is for the power circuit, rather than a backup data line.
With a string of 300 at 10cm spacing, they were drawing 568mA @ 24V at the source, and the voltage measured at the end of the string was ~21.7V.
Initially I had 940 connected up, and the load of the additional pixels was causing them to stop working a few pixels past ~250, hence the cut at 300. You could probably squeeze a few more out if needed.
The other thing to note about these is that they draw the exact same current regardless of colour or brightness - there is no change between them being off or on full white.
For my application I'm looking for these with 2cm spacing, however I'm not aware of any supplier that can do that right now. Two suppliers I've spoken with claim they will be able to make them with some new machines they hope to have up and running in the next month.
A couple of rough videos showing them in action:
