Light Controllers
What are LED Light Controllers?
The LED controllers are designed to manage brightness, colors, and the effect of your LED lights. They are essential devices for dimming brightness, changing color, or creating dynamic effects. They can be used to customize and automate lighting behavior.
The key functions of LED Controllers
1. Power Management: Delivers stable voltage/current to LED lights.
2. Color Control: change the static colors in RGB, RGBW, and RGBCCT LED strips.
3. Brightness & CCT Dimming: Adjust the brightness from 0% to 100% or the color temperature from warm white to cool white.
4. Effects & Modes: Enable strobe, fade, flash, music sync, and other dynamic modes.
5. Automation & Timing: Schedules lighting change.
Types Of LED Controllers:
1. IR/RF Remote/Inline Controllers: These are basic RGB controllers, cheap, and easy to use. You can use the remote control to control the light or the buttons on the controller.
2. PWM(Pulse-width Modulation): Those LED controllers can precise dimming & color control efficiently without color shifts.
3.WiFi/Bluetooth Smart Controllers: These controllers need to support Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant. They can be controlled for automation using voice commands or a phone app.
4. DMX Controllers: The DMX ones have advanced programming functions and can be used for programmable LED lights as professional lighting in theaters, stages, etc.
5. DALI Controllers: These are reliable and bidirectional communication devices for precise control in commercial buildings or scalable systems.
Applications
On/off, dim brightness of single color or white LED lights
Dim brightness and adjust the color temperature of CCT lights
Select colors or the dynamic effect of RGB, RGBW, and RGB+CCT LED lights
Program the group or individual addressable strip lights
Smart home automatic and voice control
Wiring & Installation:
1. Connect to Power Supply: The controllers need to connect to an LED power supply, except for the dimming LED drivers.
2. Connect to LED Lights: Wire the controllers to LED strips or link to fixtures.
3. Pair the Remote/APP for wireless sync control.
When Do You Need To Add Them?
1. For color-changing LED lights to change colors.
2. Smart lighting systems.