quote:
WLED is a very popular one and allows for both of these setups to act the same- you can reverse each segment and have the animations play each way.

Came here to post this. Actually it took me a minute to understand OP's dilemma until I remembered not everyone runs WLED.

FWIW I put LEDs all around the ceiling in my son's room and the physical wiring is like option 1. All I had to do was reverse one segment like Doc said and his animations flow all the way around the room as expected.

2 ...

Report Post

Posted by Lonnie Utah

Utah!

Member since Jul 2012

24134 posts

Posted on 12/8/23 at 7:58 am to Korkstand

WLED is awesome. I run it on all my LED's.

quote:
FWIW I put LEDs all around the ceiling in my son's room and the physical wiring is like option 1

The advantage of running option 1 is that you have to "injection points" for your data signal. The advantage of that is if you lose a LED that interrupts the data signal the maximum it can take out is 1/2 your strips/stings. Mine is not run this way (I don't think reversing was an option back when I put mine up). Problems in the data signal early in the segment could potentially take down all of my LED's. I had this happen a couple of years ago. Of course it was at the highest point of my roofline...

This post was edited on 12/8/23 at 8:03 am

0 ...

Report Post

Posted by Meauxjeaux

98836 posts including my alters

Member since Jun 2005

40399 posts

Posted on 12/8/23 at 10:00 am to Korkstand

Thanks all, this is great news Because it’s much easier to run power to the one spot in the middle. I’ll get WLED. I just have been testing with the app downloaded with the lights so far.

1 ...

Report Post

Tech Board - Replies to Post

Return To Board

Page 1

Return To Board