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| DIY RGB LED string conversion ideas? |
Author: Steve Willoughby
Date: 01-08-12 01:29
I'm looking at what it would take to convert my mega-tree to LED lights, maybe one color at a time (due to expense of LED lights). And I was wondering if there are any RGB strings available which are wired up with all the red, green, and blue elements connected together to the controller, so the controller could turn the string on in any color by manipulating those color circuits.
Given that, I'd probably just cut the controller out and put each color into my own controller and have a single string replacing what is now four separate single color strings on my tree.
However, I'm not sure if such a string exists. I've seen multi-color LED sets but the only true RGB ones I've seen are set up with a whole microcontroller in each LED with a data line running through the string to command them. Pretty neat, but not quite what I'm looking for.
Has anyone else worked out a way to get a string of RGB lights which could be plugged in (electrically) as if they were three power loads to one of our usual controllers?
I was even thinking of a way to get a bulk shipment of RGB LEDs and build my own strings, but I don't think I'm going to get the LEDs anywhere near as inexpensively as the light string manufacturers, let alone the effort that would take.
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