QuinLED: RGB, RGBW, RGBCW, RGBCCT LED strip, what does it all mean? 

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that's where the CRI value (or better yet, R9 or better yet, TM30 values) come into play. there are high color rendering white LED strip options out there. That way you won't have to supplement the light with a specific part of the spectrum. Check out waveform lighting

Note* China's stuff breaks ez

Wow, that's a lot of questions in one, these things are best discussed on my Discord server, but let's give it a try. First, for all LED strip recommendations, check out quinled.info and what's in the video description, I update those regularly and list items I've tested myself. 1. I don't know really what to answer here without seeing a picture what you are talking about. You want white, RGB, both? 2. Around the TV is cool, I use some static high CRI warm white for that to give the TV a nice glow on the wall but you can also go all out with colors that follow the image on your screen with like Hyperion. 3. Above the kitchen sink I would advise high CRI Warm White in IP65 for when there are splatters and such. You also need the high CRI since you need accurate red colors in the kitchen which cheap strip makes look horrible! 4. Again, I'd use the same stuff as in the kitchen. Colors are cool and all but accent and mood lighting at best, you want some good High CRI White and maybe add color as an extra. Again IP65 is a good choice here too, prevents rust on the strip and such in a humid environment. 5. I'm not sure what you mean with font, you mean a controller or plug? Again, for all recommendations, check the links in the description. :)

Euhm, I have no clue, not generic terms I think. Join the discord and send me the links, I'll check it out. :)

I haven't used those controllers myself but did hear good things about them. I think you can use them on all variants of strip, just don't know if you can have all channels on at the same time or not. :)

Yes and no, you can influence the color of the light, but not get the same spectrum so it'll still behave and look very differently.

Poh some of the things either don't exist yet or are very very expensive. But LED tech is improving, check my latest livestream the ending part, it has some new 24v addressable strips which are very promising!

An ESP32 can do it using MOSFETs, check the Analog section on my website!

No sadly, more like bad practice and understanding, confusing it for everyone. RGBW isn't anything other then that it has a white LED, doesn't say what type.

Sure, as accent lighting it's fine, just not as primary lighting you want to have at least a dedicated white LED ans very much preferably a High CRI one.

Yes, I actually have an article on my website with the white strips I recommend. The QuinLED-Quad and QuinLED-Deca are suited for those.

Did you look in the video description? It's all right there :)

Intermit.Tech I need new glasses 🤓 thank you for the videos it’s awesome.

A little bit, maybe? The white in an RGBW (with Cold White) strip isn't great to start with. You can make it warmer by adding mostly Red into the mix but on everything strip I've ever tried such combinations the results where not that great. On the strip where all the chips are in the same package and with a good diffuser over it to make it blend together as much as possible would be the best it could be, but even then it won't come close to matching a good Super Warm White LED.

Intermit.Tech thanks for sharing your experience! I wanted to use a shelly to control the strip. This thing has 4 channels only. I will probably use 2 controllers. One with rgbww and one cw strip. This way the user may either switch on cold white with one and everything else with the rgbw controler. I will use a diffusor cover anyway. Your help his appreciated, thanks.

You could try adding red and green. Red and green light combined makes yellow. So to make the light be that super light orangey color, add a little red, but less green.

All three are good for what they are. If you want RGB+CCT the expensive one with everything in one package looks best, but it's also most expensive

You wouldn’t see the UV though

So there’s no point

I have also been looking for information on this unfortunately I haven’t had any luck

@gto.eduardo958 you'll need a MOSFET to use PWM per channel. So if you have RGB you need 3 channels and if you have RGB+CCT you need 5. I have several DIY projects you can build on my website and am working on pre-assembled controllers.

I think you mean RGBCCT and RGB+CCT? People will use that interchangeable, if we would nitpick it would be that RGBCCT would have to be in the same package, so like a 5050 style package. And that RGB+CCT indicates it's composed of multiple packages and the white diodes are in a different package then the RGB ones. I don't think normal people would pay enough attention to that tough.

There is also a remote and a single box before all the strips. I dont need the remote.

If it's analog LED strip, just only connect the Red channel to ground and te normal + wire and then only red should come on. Each color is it's own ground channel.

@@MonkellD As long as you are using 12v with a 12v LED strip, you don't need the controller. Just remove it and hook up the channel of the color you want to ground and the plus wire the plus and it should work!

Just realized it is rgb 5050 smd leds 12v. Thats still ok right?

In theory, but no RGBW (or other white variant) has a decent enough (90+) CRI and thus are very bad as video lights. Check out my article on the Quality of White light on quinled.info I also have strips listed which I've tested myself and are excellent (I use those as video lights myself)

@@IntermitTech thankyou I have looked

It's called a NEAT Bumblebee you can find a video about it on my channel :)

You are combing a digital LED controller with an analog strip it seems. That won't work unless you add a dig2analog in between. Maybe look for a digital strip? Also CCT is though with digital strips and white quality generally isn't great but as long as it's accent lighting, it's ok. RGBCCT strip for WLED doesn't exist BTW. Maybe consider analog? Or just RGBW but it depends what the primary purpose is, is it white lighting? Accent or effects?

@@IntermitTech Thank you so much for your reply. I am a huge fan. Could you please recommend me a RGBW digital strip(no price compromise) which can work best for 10M wire WLED software?

Sure! Check out my last video about 24v COB strip the RGBW variant in there is the best you van get if you also need white light, sadly a bit few addressable zones but other then that, great!

@@IntermitTech awesome! Thank you so much!!Do you have a video where you made 5v controller running with 24v led strip? I have watched several of your videos and also gone through your page was unsuccessful. I am still felling implausible you replying to my comments

Yeah, there is a lot out there, hopefully my guides on quinled.info help a bit?

I am Dutch, live near Den Bosch. :)

@@IntermitTech I'm Dutch too I live in dordrecht I like your vids very educating. Do you have any advice for me on a matter (since you dabbled quite a bit in the subject). I'm looking to power the whole house with led through POE . Addressable LEDs seem the future. I've been looking into dmx512 to drive the whole system coupled with home assistant. Is this in your opinion feasible or is this still a little to futuristic to be feasible?

Poh, there is a lot of issues with that still I think. I know Ubiquity have a POE powered lights but it's quite expensive. And there lies the problem, POE is generally not cheap to implement and then there is the voltage being around 48v and LEDs need around 3v, so addressable LEDs aren't going to work. Maybe join the Discord server if you'd like the discuss more! :)

Yup, what gave it away? ;)

Purely technically, yes light works that way. In reality with LEDs it makes for a horrible light. White light is a special king of light and needs some more finesse to be pleasent or even functionally white. Check out the articles on my website about this, that explains why. RGB white is horrible and will never be good because it doesn't have the right spectrum of lights to combine. Even just the issue that it's 3 LEDs inside of a single package which throws off 3 shadows and thus everything gets horrible fringing makes it a no go. So in theory yes, in practice, absolutely not usable.

RGBWW is a "wrong term" because it can basically mean multiple things. I prefer either RGB+CCT (if we're talking dual white) or RGBW and the specifying the color temperature. Because then it's always clear, check out my video about it here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-f_B7X9OLouQ.html

No, that wouldn't be a true rgb-w... The separate "w" is an actual, SEPARATE white led.

@@starmc26 I bought some RGBW and the blue led bleeds light and make white glow. and you get a white-blue colour.

@@chadellett4696 yeah that's not the strip, it's the controller

@@starmc26 no set the blue to 255 max brightness and the white section will glow due to the blue UV bleed

@@starmc26 can i send you an email with some pics to show you?