ALITOVE WS2811 12mm Diffused Digital RGB LED Pixel Light 5V Individually Addressable Round Bullet LED Pixels Module IP68 Waterproof DC 5V 50pcs/Set for Billboard House Halloween Christmas Decor

This review is for the ALITOVE WS2811 12mm Diffused Digital RGB LED 50 LED set. I bought these with the idea that I'd use them for Christmas lights or just to play with. I plan to drive them with an Arduino or ESP8266 device. I decided to start figuring it out with an old Aduino Uno. I couldn't find a sample sketch or circuit from the vendor but there are plenty of examples on the internet. Google WS2811 and you'll get plenty of hits. This is a three wire setup and the wires are marked Red: +5V; White: DATA; Blue: GND on the amazon website and the LED's closest to the connector. I hate to admit that I tried every possible wrong combination of wiring before hitting on the right setup. The good news is that I didn't blow the lights up, which is a miracle and testament to the durability of the lights. Once working they are pretty spectacular. Instructions that worked for me: 1) Quadruple check your wiring. The key is to connect the data, power, and ground to the female plug. The female end ( I know some of you are confused by this ) is the end where you have to poke your hook up wire into the hole to make the connection. It doesn't make sense to me why I had to use the female connector but I got zero lights until I moved my connections this end. 2) There is information on the internet that says its a good idea to put a 470 ohm resistor inline on the data connection. I did this. 3) Give it plenty of power. I was not successful running this from the 5v Arduino pin or a 1/2 amp wall wart. I was successful using something that supplied 5v at 2 plus amps. ALITOVE sells a power supply that I wish I had bought at the same time. 4) There is information on the internet that says its a good idea to put a 1000 uf capacitor on the between the power and the LED's to smooth out the power. I did this. 5) Use the FastLED library in your Arduino IDE library. From menus choose sketch->Include Library->Library Manager then search for and install the FastLED library. I tried the Adafruit Neopixel library but have not able to get it to work to date. 6) From the Arduino IDE go to menus->File->Examples->FastLED-> and choose the FirstLight example. These sketches are well documented. You must change the define statement to match the data pin you are using and number of LED's to whatever is correct. Also check to see that the "FastLED.addLeds<WS2811, DATA_PIN, RGB>(leds, NUM_LEDS);" under setup in the sketch is uncommented. Some of the examples are set already and some are not. All other similar lines should be commented out. 7) Compile, upload and you should have flashing lights. There are other example sketches for the FastLED library, plus info on the web. I'm sure there are other or better circuits that could be designed, or ways to get the Adafruit library to work. I just wanted to post a review and outline what worked for me in hopes that someone will find it useful.

Good stuff and helps get the project finished. They worked like a champ.

Dec 12th edit: I have to eat a big dish of Crow, my first review was completely wrong. Rather than using a complete LED controller like DigiQuad, I was using a basic ESP32 with WLED to test the pixel strips. Originally the ALTILOVE brand wasn't working well at all, while the Rextin brand was functioning. I had planned to ship the ALTILOVE back and even had Amazon send me a return label. Then I began having problems testing the Rextin brand that was already hung on my house. After investigating it, I read from DrZzzzz that the ESB32 Data Output pins provide the absolute bare minimum signal voltage for the WS2811 chip. Even a short wire run can degrade the signal enough to cause problems. The ALTILOVE must have been more sensitive than the Rextin. I installed an F-Amp inline voltage translator right at the output of the ESP32 and that solved every problem I had. All ten 15ft strands of these lights work perfectly now. I was even able to chain eight in a row and they worked flawlessly, another inline F-Amp and the last two made it ten complete strings all running of the single output. Please disregard everything I said in my initial review. These pixels work great, putting them on the house this weekend. ******************Completely incorrect initial review below.*************************************** I purchased a set of these LED lights on Nov 22nd, brand was Rextin, $143. They have worked flawlessly. Color is great and they respond to WLED perfectly. the first two pictures ore of the Rextin brand. Amazon pushed me an AD for a set on Nov 27th at $115, I am guessing as part of Cyber Monday. Although they look similar, they are not, these are ALTILOVE and they are trash, buyer beware. 80% of the strands have failed, six won't turn on a single LED, two have a few that light, and two light completely. The tird picture shows a strand where only LED 1 lights. They are very obviously from different manufacturers, the wire color is different. But these ALTILOVE are garbage, waste of money and effort, if you bought them, test them as soon as they come in so you can return the defective ones. Only blessing was I tested before I hung them, so I didn't have to do a bunch of rework. Steer clear of the ALTILOVE brand.

I bought a bunch of these to use for Christmas lights on the roof of the house. I had been wanting to do this for a while and finally got around to it. I purchased the 12V version based on various reviews. What I've learned is that both 5V and 12V versions use the same chip/LED/circuit, the only difference I can see is perhaps the internal resistor values used. What I do know is that the 12V strings will operate all the way down to 5V. The pixels themselves are not cosmetically perfect, but that does not appear to affect the color output or brightness. The 4 star rating is simply due to the fact that the wire used to connect the pixels to each other is not heavy enough (I think it's 22-24 AWG aluminum) to power the full string. With all LEDs on full white (red=255, green=255, blue=255) I measure 2.32A @ 12V at the input to the string. At the end of the string I measure 10.5V. That is a 1.5V drop for a 12' string. The fact that the LED's tolerate this voltage drop without much visible change is the only reason I didn't rate these even lower. If you're going to buy a lot of these, save yourself some headaches and buy the 12V version. I will be buying more to replace the few C7 bulbs I have left. The power savings is amazing - a 50 pixel string draws about 800mA @ 12V (2 LEDs at half current). I can definitely recommend these as I've not had any bad pixels out of a batch of 1500, and they work quite well.

ALITOVE WS2811 12mm Diffused Digital RGB LED Pixel Light Individually Addressable Round LED Pixels Module IP68 Waterproof DC 5V 50pcs/set (sold by Alitove) -- Purchased the strand to test out for either holiday lighting or a television Ambilight clone set-up. Strand is heavy duty with what appears to be quite a good job at sealing the LED itself. These are WS2811 5v which is driven by a single signal wire connected to your processor of choice. I paired these with an Elegoo Arduino Uno clone and utilized the FASTled LED library along with the TwinkleFox sketch to create a fancy, glowy strand of colour. The wiring, as depicted in the seller photos, is colored so you may wish to paint these to allow them to blend a bit better if the strands will be showing. Each LED on the strand worked as described with no issues at all. Basic setup example for the 50 led strand would be: power to a separate power supply (I chose a 5v/10a regulated brick), connect data (white) to the appropriate pin on an Arduino Uno, connect GND (blue) to Arduino GND and (optional) connect Red to VIN on Arduino to power from the same source. Pop the Arduino in a project case, secure the connections and you're good to go with the FASTled library and the TwinkleFox sketch customized to your preference. JST connectors are on both ends allowing you to add more strands. Overall quality is seemingly pretty darn good so I'll be purchasing more in the near future from the same seller. Future projects: Ambilight clone for my TV, permanent outdoor holiday/accent lighting for my tree (will need about 1500-2000 LEDs for that project) and room accent lighting. Highly recommended - both the product and the seller.

Love the color palette with this particular string. I use them to design signs and light boxes. Paired with a web controller it is an unbelievable product. Easy to set up if you understand the controller. And rated for outdoor so they can go anywhere you're above water. Works perfect and for the price point you can't go wrong.

These LED's are Bright & Vivid. The construction quality of these LED strings are perfect, the housing of each LED is filled with a waterproof coating of some kind, likely silicone, and a semi soft shell on the outside giving you rigidity, The cables connecting each LED to one another is per the cable itself 20 A W G safe for up to about 11 Amps so it can carry quite a bit power for your projects. Each end has a open power input to re-inject voltage once you get the strings long enough to need this to keep the color consistent with really long runs.This product if you give it the proper power supply will bring your eyes to heaven. When I set all three colors to 255 brightness the soft white is brilliant and really closely matches sunlight through a soft white cloud.... tells me the color accuracy of each LED's (3) colors are being driven spot on. These run perfectly for me with the: Adafruit NeoPixel the RGB library; as the manufacturer says. 800 KHz works for the data pin, so your going to get better color fluidity than if you only had 400 KHz. NEO_RGB bit-stream instead of the pre programmed NEO_GRB in the Adafrut NeoPixel strand test library. I added: colorWipe(strip.Color(255, 255, 255), 50); // White RGB WARNING POWER HOG!!! MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE AMPS! So I could test out the RGB pixels being turned on full to show its true colors... I was impressed to get a soft white diffused light that didn't lean too much into the blue or other spectrum.

OMG, I read most of these reviews and I saw where a few people (one in particular, who said, you need to start at the female end, people have problems with this I know...) said to start on the female connector, and hook end to end, etc. Well I did start with 1 strand in my house on my desk to make sure everything was going to work, and after wiring up my power supply, controller, and finally lights (after cutting off the female end), it didn't work! I then looked in detail at the product pictures, and I see where it shows the MALE! end and says input or beginning or something. So I changed it around and they work awesome. So make sure you know which end to cut off. It's also the one end with the gray tag that tells you what kind of lights, RGB, GRB, etc. I only got a cheap controller (SP105E) to use with them to start, i'm going to drill 12mm holes in jchannel and hang under my fascia board under soffit with LED's aiming towards street. So I still have to drill and install them all, but at least I know which end to start with now and will work on it this weekend. I might have to upgrade the controller later so that I can control each individual light if I want to, but this should at least get me set up and working.

These work great, waterproof. I've had many strings outside for couple years, year round, and no failures yet. But price varies a lot over the seasons, so get them on sale.

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Pixel led fantastici, sono tre anni che illuminano una insegna e sono impeccabili, abbinati a un ottimo controller e un ottimo alimentatore vanno che è uno spettacolo.