{"id":543,"date":"2024-12-18T15:09:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T07:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ledbe.com\/blog\/?p=543"},"modified":"2024-12-18T15:17:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T07:17:01","slug":"how-to-correctly-connect-addressable-light-strips-into-a-long-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ledbe.com\/blog\/how-to-correctly-connect-addressable-light-strips-into-a-long-line\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Correctly Connect Addressable Light Strips Into A Long Line?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Addressable LED strips are always the best option for creating colorful and dynamic lighting for residential or business spaces. They allow individual control of a single LED, enabling users to create dynamic lighting effects, patterns, and animations for holidays or decorations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Recently, one of our customers talked to us about connecting LED strips up to 32 meters long without a gap for his project. Most RGBIC LED strips<\/a> have 3Pin or 4Pin male and female connectors on both ends, and the standard length is only 5 meters per roll. If you connect them end to end, there is a gap between the LED strip lights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To avoid any gap between them, we recommend removing the connectors on the ends and using transparent solderless connectors<\/a> to connect them. You can do the same operations and connect them for a long line as long as you want. Like the picture below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Before you connect the long-line addressable LED strips to the pixel controller, you must confirm that your controller supports that quantity of ICs; if it does not, you must change the controller or add an amplifier. Another problem we need to solve is voltage drop. Because the programmable LED strips have many small parts, when the electrical voltage travels through a circuit or conductor, a voltage drop occurs, which will cause the lighting to be uneven. The part close to the LED controller is brighter than the section away. To fix this issue, we recommend solder wires on the positive and negative electrodes and connecting the wires to the LED power supply, which will keep all LEDs working at the same voltage and brightness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Follow the steps above to create a long line of colorful and dynamic linear lighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Addressable LED strips are always the best option for creating colorful and dynamic lighting for residential or business spaces. They allow individual control of a single LED, enabling users to create dynamic lighting effects, patterns, and animations for holidays or decorations. Recently, one of our customers talked to us about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[156,155,158],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lighting","tag-addressable","tag-connect","tag-long-line"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ledbe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ledbe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ledbe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ledbe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ledbe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ledbe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":553,"href":"https:\/\/www.ledbe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ledbe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ledbe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ledbe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ledbe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}