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[QUOTE="AAH, post: 104318, member: 543"] Welcome to ACL I imagine that you are talking about pixel strip rather than dumb rgb strip. Assuming that it's pixel strip then the 2 choices are 5V or 12V. Both are pretty easy to work with. 5V allows every led to be controlled individually. 12V allows groups of 3 to be controlled at a time. 5V is "typically" 30 pixels per metre or 150 pixels per strip. 12V is "typically" 10 pixels (30 leds) per metre or 50 pixels per strip. 30m of 5V strip will be 900 pixels and about 50A maximum current. 30m of 12V strip will be 300 pixels and 16.5A. The trade off between the 2 is the resolution of the 5V versus the higher current that you need to work with. 900 or 300 pixels is dead easy to control and near any pixel controller can do that from a single output. The strips have 3 wires that get daisy chained from 1 to the next. The start of strings usually have 2 extra wires for power injection. Power injection to top up the voltage is generally connected to the start of each strip. Pop into chat if you want instant answers for nearly any question. LOTS of choices for a controller. Falcon F16 or F4, Advatek Pixlite 16 or Pixlite 4, San Devices E6804 or E682 or I make the rPi-28D (and rPi-28D+) which plug onto a Raspberry Pi. [/QUOTE]
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