BTF-LIGHTING WS2812B RGB Black PCB Addressable Strip with 5050 SMD LEDs 5 V IP30 1 m 100 LEDs/Pixels/m Not Waterproof (Power Supply and Controller Not Included)

...and they're at 1cm spacing. Which is what I was after. Thanks BTF.

First up, I’ll talk about the LED strips themselves: As an electrical engineer I can say these are well made strips! Flex PCBs can vary in thickness and quality. These appear to be made from quality flex material with wide 1oz copper traces for power. Each individual LED on the strip has its own 0.1uF decoupling capacitor, which is important to keep communication between LEDs from glitching. (A lot of cheaper strips skip this!) The only issue I ran into was the first strip I ordered didn’t have any adhesive tape on the back of it! I contacted BTF Lighting on Amazon and they replied right away, letting me know that the adhesive should have been on the strip and that someone had goofed at the factory. They provided me an Amazon link to a roll of 10mm wide double sided tape and offered to refund me that amount (around $10) if I wanted to just order it and put it on myself, instead of going through the whole return thing. That’s pretty good customer service in my book, so kudos to BTF! (The second strip *did* have the tape installed as advertised, so I assume this was an oversight at the factor like they said.) Each strip pulls just under 5A with all LEDs set to white at maximum brightness. Cooling didn’t seem to be issue, even rolled up the strip never got so hot I couldn't hold it by hand. There were no dead pixels in either strip and brightness and color were uniform and matched between strips. Now, onto my project: Awhile back I picked up a couple of those Himalayan salt lamps at a Goodwill (I know they don’t actually emit “positive ions” or have any health benefits, I just think they look really cool). They were just begging to be customized, so I decided to replace the stock incandescent nightlight style bulbs with WiFi connected RGB LED lighting! My “lamps” both had (approximately) 3” diameter holes drilled in the bottom of them for the bulbs, so I figured it would be easy to make a cylindrical replacement. These 100 led per meter strips ended up working perfect. Originally, my plan was to wrap the LED strips *around* a 2” diameter piece of PVC piping (cut to 120mm in length). I went for the 100 LED/m instead of the more dense 144 LED/m because I thought the latter may have trouble bending enough to wrap around the small diameter of the pipe. This turned out to be a non-issue as I ended up cutting seven sections of 10 LEDs (100mm) off the roll and mounting them vertically on the pipe; this allows better alignment of the LEDs and easier management of effects in the controlling software. The 100 LED/m strips also have the advantage that the LEDs are all spaced exactly 10mm apart, which makes the math easy! First I wrapped the pipe in two layers of heat resistant Kapton tape, to prevent the pipe melting when I soldered to the LED strips. Next I adhered the seven 100mm sections of LED strip to the pipe, leaving around 10mm of free space on the bottom, I also added three small tie wraps for extra retention. Then I soldered a wire from the DO pad on the top of each section to the DI pad on the bottom of the next section; similarly I soldered very short (3mm) 20 AWG solid wire jumpers from the 5V and GND pads between sections, creating a power bus. The result is that all seven sections act as they original did before I cut them, i.e., a single strip. I also took a 1200uF capacitor and fit it snuggly in the center of the PVC pipe, then soldered the leads to the power pads of the last section. (This helps smooth out the voltage.) Finally, I took some insulating foam designed for 2” PVC piping and cut two 10mm long sections off, then slid one over the top and bottom of the pipe. These turned out to be the perfect size to act as “buffers” to hold the whole assembly centered inside the salt lamp. For the controller, I used an ESP8266 based D1-Mini mounted inside a small 2”x3”x1” enclosure. I drilled a 1/4” hole in one end of the enclosure and a 5/8” hole in the other end. A 5.5x2.5mm barrel jack was mounted in the larger hole and a small rubber grommet was mounted in the smaller hole, with the 3-pin LED connector pigtail fed through the grommet. The software running on the controller is the open source WLED (available on GitHub), which provides an easy to use web based interface for setting the color, brightness and/or effects of the connected LEDs, plus it integrates with Blynk, Alexa, WARLS, MQTT, Home Assistant and more! The attached video shows the fire flicker and rainbow effects running in my smaller lamp. The video really doesn’t do it justice, it looks even better in person. The salt makes a perfect diffuser and people honestly think there’s really a candle inside when the flame effect is going.

I purchased the 1m 60 LED version of this strip for my PC which has a Dark Base Pro 900 case and Asus Strix X299-E Gaming motherboard. This particular motherboard has a header on the board and comes with a cable for connecting it to WS2812b addressable LED strips, which can then be controlled with the Asus Aura Sync software. After installing the LED strip and connecting it up to the motherboard it works perfectly and is also very bright. The LEDs are individually controlled so you can have, say, a rainbow or gradient effect across all of them etc. One issue I encountered when trying to install the LED strip to my case was that the sticking backing isn't very strong and starts to peel off from the inside of the case within hours of being installed. In the end, I found the best way to attach the strip was to use some sticky fixers (double sided foam pads) which are very sticky, and they have secured the LED strip nicely. Just be aware that you may want to buy some if you intend on using this strip inside your computer! The LED strip has wires and connections at both ends. At one end you have a 3 pin male plug (this fitted into the cable for my motherboard) and the other end has a 3 pin female plug, presumably to chain additional strips together. Both ends also have an extra red and white wire (with exposed ends), which is for attaching to an additional power source. I didn't need these so I cut the exposed tip off and sealed them in shrink wrap although you could use electrical tape or simply cut them off altogether. I also had to remove 3 LEDs for this strip to fit in my case properly. It was simply a case of cutting the strip with a pair of scissors where the white intersection line is marked. The really cool thing about this strip is you can cut the strip up and solder the strips together using 3 wires (+5v, GND and Data) between each strip.

J'avais commandé une bande leds d'une autre marque que j'ai retournée pour défaillance dangereuse. Celle-ci est absolument parfaite, fonctionne très bien, led et lumière adressables. Je recommande!

Very good