ALITOVE WS2811 RGB LED Pixels Light Individually Addressable 12mm Diffused Full Color Bullet Pixels DC 5V IP68 Waterproof 500pcs for Outdoor LED Screen Billboard House Halloween Christmas Decor

I have over 5000 Alitove 5v WS2811's in my Christmas show. Love these lights. I always cut the ends off and use Ray Wu connectors to waterproof the ends. I also use Marine Grade shrink wrap from Harbor Freight. It has an adhesive in it for waterproofing. I use a F16V3 from pixelcontroller.com (upgrading to F16V5 soon) to run the lights. I have them set at 40% brightness. I power inject every 100 and could probably go longer but it works just fine. Use xLights for the software to program the lights. I've never had any issues with the Alitove 5v but did have issues with the 12v (not Alitove) but they were from 2020 and everyone got a bad batch due to the big "C" word. Great lights and plan on buying more! Thanks Alitove!

I love these! I have used them on a couple different things so far, originally I was going to use them with my computers to extend the ARGB set ups... It was then that I learned many of the strip lights do NOT use RGB color order for the data. These use GRB, the green and blue are swapped compared to what is usually RGB order on computer ARGB lighting. Because of this, I have used them with ESP32 based WLED controllers and been very happy with them! So far, I have only found one of these types of LED strings that is RGB order, and I was actually very surprised to see that! So I will use them with my computers...

I have bought 2 sets of 500 (10 X 50 strings) and they are 100% awesome. I have not had ANY dead strings, and to be completely honest, I wouldn't be surprised if the "dead strings" reported are just not being supplied enough power or maybe the power injection wires (pos & neg) ended up shorting because they have a tiny bit of bare wire showing. I've been writing my own software for running a matrix of these but at the moment am lining my balcony roof with them for Christmas. Will be buying another 1000+ after the holidays to continue my LED Matrix project. Video uploaded is 500 pixels (50x10).

I have a 5 meter Alitove RGB strip that my wife commandeered for our last holiday party to light up our outdoor bar. It wasn’t the best for the task because the strip is flat and doesn’t turn corners well. I bought one of these to check out and will be buying more. I’m using one of Alitove’s $11 RF controllers to drive the strip because I don’t really care about programming a micro controller with a bunch of patterns and their controller has a lot of variations - plus our guests found them really cool and trippy, so that’s always a plus. While testing the new strand in my lab I did note that the 5-Volt strand peaked at 2.77 Amps with all LEDS set to white and full brightness. As someone else mentioned you will need at least 3 Amps per strand to supply them. My lab supply is variable so I got to see that the strands stay reasonably bright down to about 3 volts, and either the LEDs or my controller stops changing the LEDS at about 2.33 Volts. Current draw with all LEDs set to white and full brightness at 3.3 Volts was 900 milliAmps. At 5 Volts I found the lights to be almost uncomfortably bright but this was sitting within 3 feet of them. Plenty bright for my taste. The power wire is I think a Metric gauge that is somewhere between 24 and 26 AWG. At least, that’s the way it fits in my Klein strippers. While some may complain about this, especially when wanting to run more than one strand, it is the cost of having a smaller wire bundle with a good deal of flexibility. The last point, and what almost cost them a star, is that like others my Red and Green channels are swapped. Not a big deal for my application but it will keep me from mixing and matching with other strips and panels.

As others have noted, the connectors are definitely *not* water-proof in any way. Waterproofing *looks* good on the rest of the string, but you'll need to come up with your own solution for water-proof connectors. (I used them indoors this year but wanted ones I could use outdoors next year.) I notice voltage drop with just two strings connected end-to-end, but others don't seem to notice; you can get away with two, but not more. For some reason, using these with Arduino and FastLED, the green and red colors were swapped for all pixels. I had to write my own wrapper functions to get RGB colors to work correctly, and it rules out using the nice HSV functions of FastLED. I might have missed something, though. In the end, I put together quite a holiday light show using these, and they did the job.

I have had several strings of these LEDs running for 18 hours a day for the last 6 months now. No issues at all they look great they are bright and they have nice color reproduction.

These work great with ESPhome and WLED using ESP32s. I cut the last 10 LEDs off the end of the string to use for other one and two addressable LED projects. I can control both ESPhome and WLED with Home Assistant. Keep in mind you will need a separate 5V 4A power supply to run all 50 LEDs.

These strands have an effective resistance of 0.8Ω. At full power, this 5V-rated strand draws nearly 10W and drops 1.37V! That means the very next strand in the chain isn't getting enough voltage, and the whites turn yellow as the blues drop out. You can mitigate that problem by dropping the brightness substantially in software, but now they're not as bright. Basically, despite being connector-ed for easy chaining, chaining 5V strands end-to-end doesn't really work out. I spent my weekend soldering in a parallel run of 14ga wire to the supplied pigtails to keep the voltage boosted, which kind of defeats the purpose of the chaining connectors. I bought some 12V versions. They draw less current so they drop less voltage, plus they can withstand a much bigger drop of about 5V (to 7V) before color distortion appears. At 7V they're noticeably dimmer (about 25% brightness), but it would be easy to level the brightness in software. If you're happy with 25%, you could chain 14-15 strings together (200 feet of lights!) without trouble. Or use shorter chains and run at 50%, which is perceptually very close to full brightness.

Set up with WLED on a NodeMCU and everything worked perfectly.

Exactly as described, made a mega tree fomr them, worked a treat

C’est réellement un produit bas de gamme, de tout point de vue. Bon uniquement pour être allumé et éteint, inutile si on veut en faire un peu plus

...sondern weil ich es einfach für meine Zwecke nicht verwenden kann. Die Ware selbst ist super gut verarbeitet, die Lieferung kam schnell aber leider konnte ich nichts damit anfangen. Ich hatte gedacht, dass die ganzen LEDs einzeln sind und ich zusammenstecken kann aber das ist hier nicht möglich - man kann verlängern aber ohne zerschneiden nicht einzeln nutzbar und ich habe für den ganzen Strang einfach keine Verwendung. Daher die Rücksendung und nicht weil es schlecht ist - wer ne lange und gute Lichterkette haben will, der ist hier gut bedient.

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